I believe that LLMs will automate most of our data entry/copy/transformation work.
80% of the world's data is unstructured and scattered across formats like HTML, PDFs, or images that are hard to access and analyze. Multimodal models can now tap into that data without having to rely on complex OCR technologies or expensive tooling.
If you go to platforms like Upwork, there are thousands of VAs in low-cost labor countries that do nothing else than manual data entry work.
IMO that's a complete waste of human capital and I've made it my personal mission to automate such tedious and un-creative data work with https://kadoa.com.
I was thinking what the payoff would be to pose as human for these terrible pay click jobs and then assign them to an LLM en masse. There's an arbitrage there ... it may be a good strategy.
I heard recently "click-work" works out to about $4/hr* If you could do that x50, passively, it's a fine income.
maybe. A lot of modern clickwork is actually model training and there is a model-collapse phenomena (https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493) which means that it should be banned for such work. I bet a number of clever people on the platforms are already trying to instrument AI to do the work regardless - it's pretty close to "free money" if you can pull it off and not get caught and at a spigot size where there's no real serious consequences if you do.
If you go to platforms like Upwork, there are thousands of VAs in low-cost labor countries that do nothing else than manual data entry work. IMO that's a complete waste of human capital and I've made it my personal mission to automate such tedious and un-creative data work with https://kadoa.com.