When "4.3m Prompts" Isn't 4.3m Prompts
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The article discusses how a dataset claimed to contain 4.3M prompts actually contains duplicated and low-quality data, highlighting issues with data quality in AI research.
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The reality is less robust. None of the major LLM vendors provide raw usage logs. What is presented as factual is, in fact, modeled: panel data scaled to population estimates. When these projections are stripped of error margins and displayed as integers, they mislead.