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As Amazon lets Mechanical Turk fade, Mercor hits a $2B gross run rate

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by ElProlactin

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I can't help but wonder: what true "domain specialists" would work as hourly contractors to train AI that will replace them?
I suspect the answer is: the people who have already lost their jobs.

by pjc50

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So it's a "management consultancy" with a special AI flavor?
Definitely lucrative to take a 30% cut of your fleet of staff, in exchange for being a seal of quality. Not yet clear how effective trying to "distil" them into models is going to be?

by sebmellen

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> the figure is before contractor payouts
Ok… so it’s GMV, not ARR… Can we say eBay hit a gross run rate of $80B?

by ChrisArchitect

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Related:
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803886