The market for annotation of data has a fascinating history. And annotation might be increasingly niche with each passing year.

Techmeme: Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)

By Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World. View the full context on Techmeme.

For perspective, consider the rise of the most visible format for annotation of data that you’ve probably done thousands of times at this point — Google reCAPTCHA.

It has also been 20 years since the launch of Amazon Mechanical Turk.