Annotators are warned repeatedly not to tell anyone about their jobs, not even their friends and co-workers, but corporate aliases, project code names, and, crucially, the extreme division of labor ensure they don’t have enough information about them to talk even if they wanted to
I find this interesting that they can't even tell friends about what their job includes. I guess if you are involved in billon dollar companies you can't give any information that could be told to a competitor.
Annotation is big business. Scale, founded in 2016 by then-19-year-old Alexandr Wang, was valued in 2021 at $7.3 billion, making him what Forbes called “the youngest self-made billionaire,”
Wow I never knew annotation was that big of a business. Thats a crazy number to be valued at in just 5 years.
labeling footage for self-driving cars — identifying every vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist, anything a driver needs to be aware of — frame by frame and from every possible camera angle
This is very interesting; I never knew someone's job could be doing the footage for a self-driving car. I don't know if I would ever get a self-driving car but the work that goes into it is impressive. The 10 dollars is crazy in my opinion he should have defiantly been paid more.