Why is human LLM annotation so expensive? [D]

Scale AI and similar services charge a lot for annotation. MTurk is cheap but the quality is horrible for anything requiring real domain understanding. For small teams that need a few thousand labeled examples to calibrate their evals or fine tune a model, there seems to be no good middle ground. How is everyone handling this? Are you doing it manually or has anyone found something that actually works? submitted by /u/Neil-Sharma [link] [comments]