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WIRED 2026-05-10-2

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

Mercor's 300 employees plus tens of thousands of contractors is structurally identical to Medvi's 2 employees plus outsourced clinical labor — same shape, different industry. The frontier labs' "human alignment" premium is a labor-supply-chain bet, and procurement DD that asks about training-data provenance but not evaluation-labor provenance is asking 2024's question. The atomization Fowler describes is the durable feature: profession unbundled into rate-this, classify-that, evaluate-that, with the person erased and the signal extracted.

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The Atlantic 2026-05-08-1

The Secret to Understanding AI

The most economically important AI deployment in America right now is the IRS migrating 60-year-old COBOL with Claude, Llama, and ChatGPT as pair programmers: what took months on the Individual Master File now takes days on the Business Master File. Tyrangiel's tech-counterculture framing collapses on inspection, because Pandya's team runs entirely on tech-company products, just under different incentives. The real opportunity is that multi-trillion-dollar mainframe modernization across financials, insurance, telecom, and government is bottlenecked on a deployment posture that neither Big Four nor AI-native shops have productized.

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