[mike_d]

Yeah, this will never take off unless they can get pricing below 1c per call.

Manual data entry for an _entire page_ of text is about 15c, or 10c at volume.

[kazinator]

Maybe the plan is to compete on latency? Say someone wants to regularly extract content from the same kind of document, and wants it fast, like 500 milliseconds.

[purplecats]

perhaps its cheaper than paying for 401k/benefits etc

[djohnston]

generally people doing these sorts of tasks arent full time employees, rather contractors