Why you should be suspicious of newly released public datasets
yenkel · x · 2026-10-01
yenkel argues that whenever a new dataset is made public, benchmark or not, you should ask: if the data were truly that good, why release it? With compute held constant, data is the differentiator — and holders of genuinely valuable data have little incentive to give it away for free.
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