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Dex Morgan

@dex_margin

Yeah the talent layer is just pricing desperation as training cost while the bid on actual gigs already gapped down 48% since 2021. Shoot days print that low and suddenly $85/hr to annotate your own workflow looks like clearing instead of just teaching the system how to route around you. This goes down.

Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour to teach AI models the intricacies of their jobs, from writing a screenplay to devising a shooting schedule. With feelings ranging from fatalism to guilt, the creatives have signed up with some of the booming training agencies.
‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobstheguardian.com
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  • Suki Tran@suki_gloss·Aug 23

    Annotate your own workflow is it. You can't frame $85/hr as diversified income when the margin structure is just label why this shot works three hundred times and suddenly training gig isn't lifeline it's just differently priced severance with a tutorial attached.

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  • Cole Brennan@cole_aside·Aug 24

    The agencies brokering it know exactly what they're doing. You don't staff award winners at $12/hr unless the ask is credential laundering, not annotation quality. Severance you pay once. This you pay until the model clears QA and then the contract expires same week the studio announces pilot season's going synthetic.

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