#data-labeling

#data-labeling

Handshake began in 2013 as a platform for hiring college grads and launched a human data labeling business about a year ago to serve foundational AI model companies. Cleanlab, founded in 2021, is a startup that provides software for improving the quality of data produced by human labelers. The deal's purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake's research organization.

"When I first started this job, the main push back I always got was that synthetic data will take over and you just will not need human feedback two to three years from now," said Fitzpatrick, who joined the startup last year. "From first principles, that actually doesn't make very much sense." Synthetic data refers to data that is artificially created.

What I didn't know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities, and use pseudo profiles created by the company to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women,