Why can't I audit what a model was actually trained on?
Opportunity
Models absorb the whole internet and then answer with no way to trace where a claim or a behavior came from. For anything regulated, or any dispute over copyright or bias, the training set is a black box. There is no practical way to ask a model what it learned from and get an honest answer.
Why it matters
You cannot govern or fully trust a system whose inputs are invisible.
How I score the opportunity
The Opportunity Score is my own read, not a measurement: how much it hurts, how often it bites, and how little exists to solve it today. Higher means I think it is more worth building.
How much pain it causes when it shows up.
How often people actually run into it.
How little good tooling exists for it today.
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