[busterarm]

This is a false equivalence. Models get better with more & better data.

Both more data and better data are very expensive. Procuring... Handling... All of the above...

You can spend bottomless piles of cash and by not doing the right things not get there. I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen business/investor incentives line up with r&d incentives.

There's no guarantee that there is enough or good-enough data, regardless of how much money you have.

[sevenseacat]

They're not getting better data. They're now ingesting their own generated slop and bad habits are being reinforced.