Love the substack: longtime lurker, first time commenter. Is it just me or does it increasingly appear as though the future of scholarly disciplines (at least "instructors and researchers") going to be the training of AI? My prediction: the only viable career options going forward for anyone that isn't in a directly applicable field - one that hasn't been replaced by GPT-X or oY or whatever) will be as precarious AI trainers, that sell their "labour" to training companies like Scale AI and the like. With the way things are going it seems increasingly likely that this is the case. That is unless, academics/scholars show some solidarity ... perhaps figure out a way to exact a cost from budding researchers that choose to work for broligarchs.
Love the substack: longtime lurker, first time commenter. Is it just me or does it increasingly appear as though the future of scholarly disciplines (at least "instructors and researchers") going to be the training of AI? My prediction: the only viable career options going forward for anyone that isn't in a directly applicable field - one that hasn't been replaced by GPT-X or oY or whatever) will be as precarious AI trainers, that sell their "labour" to training companies like Scale AI and the like. With the way things are going it seems increasingly likely that this is the case. That is unless, academics/scholars show some solidarity ... perhaps figure out a way to exact a cost from budding researchers that choose to work for broligarchs.