The Eyes-for-Rent Thesis: Why Every AI Company Will End Up Paying Humans for Ground Truth
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The scarcest input in the AI industry is not compute. It hasn't been for a while. Compute is expensive, but it's fungible — a GPU-hour in Iowa is identical to a GPU-hour in Singapore. What you can't buy on an open market, not yet, is a reliable stream of verified ground truth : a real human, at a r…
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- 2026-10-18 15:54 · DEV Community — AI
The Eyes-for-Rent Thesis: Why Every AI Company Will End Up Paying Humans for Ground Truth