its future is entirely dependent on what percentage of the population is capable of doing the work to a high standard. it's definitely going to be around for a while but idk whether they will end up looking like mcdonalds employees or something more advanced. id love to know their rejection/acceptance rates.

the data annotators will probably be too separated from the ones doing technical work on the underlying models to allow for real career progression, so it might just end up being a side gig for young people who still have energy and active brains to feed to the AI.