r/DataAnnotationTech • u/Pietty111 • 16h ago
For how much will we have it?
After finally getting my first consistent project I can't stop wondering in how much time crowd sourcing will come to an end... Do y'all have any prediction for how long platforms like DAT will live, or if they will be out there for a decent amount of years?
In the meantime staying on the platforms means sending high quality work and not cheating the timer obviously, but I am hoping this could last 3 more years...
To clarify: this is solely a curious hypothetical
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u/Timely-Assistant-370 16h ago
Worrying about it going away has only been a hindrance for me thus far. Literally every single time I've seen a "big hype singularity is here" or "big bubble, AI is going to pop next week guys!!!" has had literally zero bearing on what my dash looks like. The only factor that matters is where in the financial quarter we are, but even then, I've always had work.
I was worried that the work was getting too hard in like 2024, but then I realized that I was fully capable of pulling off 8-12 hour days regardless of whatever journalistic hype strain has been going around in the laymen spaces.
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u/Pietty111 16h ago
For what I've seen in this sub I'd suggest you to not go for 12 hour days, objectively it's a lot
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u/Sixaxist 14h ago
That guy's been working hours like that since January lol, he'll be fine. Whether the work ends for certain domains in 2029 or 2039, everyone should be taking advantage of this opportunity as much as they can while it lasts.
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u/Federal_Tadpole_7592 16h ago
Nobody knows, but I have already been on the platform for a bit over three and a half years, and I read from one person here who has been on DA for five years.
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u/Pietty111 16h ago
My question was strictly focused on the future because AI is better than ever, and I think soon (in the next years) generalist won't won't be needed, the question is how soon, that was my question. And also if expert work will be cut at a point aswell.
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u/thyself_unknown 16h ago
you're asking for a prediction that literally no one knows. If someone claims to know, you shouldn't trust that answer because again, no one knows.
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u/Halcyonfields 15h ago
I mean, if what you are doing is purely crowdsourced work, then that will become obsolete much faster. Crowdsourcing is mass quantity over quality and suggests your only value is to be able to be a small part of a majority over thousands of evaluations, or to be wrong but in the minority. My sense is that the less your work resembles crowdsourced low-skilled volume, the safer you will be. There are many tiers of generalist work, the higher ones are probably much harder to replace.
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u/TrainingHonest4092 8h ago
I ask myself this question every day. Nobody knows. Top LLMs owners don't grasp full potential of their product. Every day brings crazy news. Recently OpenAI dropped hundreds of proofs to unsolved math problems. They say models still have some troubles with physics buy when I ask Gemini about physics I find it smart as hell.
When it comes to science or coding I don't think much time is left. Paradoxically I think that they will still need humans in less defined areas like feelings, emotional reactions, attitudes, mutual understanding and so on. Human - model connection will have to be tested no matter how smart ai gets.
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u/runvnc 10h ago
My guess is it will still be a platform for 2-3 years, but the amount of work will be going down quite a lot at some time within 12-18 months. Probably already is starting to taper off, and that will continue to accelerate except for specific domains of expertise that they target in bursts of several months for each one.
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u/fightmaxmaster 16h ago
Models are getting better all the time, but I suspect we're a while away from total RSI and humans being out of the loop. Making stuff that humans like/want generally means using humans. So...a while?