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Records examined closely

A dossier takes one kind of record and asks what it is, who holds it and may share it, who is already using it, what would have to be stripped out, and what stands in the way of it becoming training data.

Every figure in a dossier is stated on a page cited in the same sentence, and each page was fetched under this site's rules. Each dossier ends in a model's judgement, set apart and labelled; the choice of which records to examine was a model's too. An example marked as an illustration is invented to show the shape of a record.

  1. 1Electricity market rebids and the trader's written reason
  2. 2Financial model audits: the issue list and the corrected spreadsheet
  3. 3Accountants' reviewed files: tax workpapers, audit files and private pension fund audits
  4. 4Business lenders' credit files and invoice-finance ledgers
  5. 5Card chargebacks: the merchant's evidence pack and the bank's ruling
  6. 6The construction cost trail: lender's monthly reports, cost plans and bid estimates
  7. 7Construction defects and payment disputes: bond inspections, adjudications and collapsed builders' files
  8. 8Contaminated-land reports and the accredited auditor's sign-off
  9. 9Mining: ore-or-waste calls checked against what the mill received
  10. 10Process plants: operators' control changes and the control-room history of closed plants
  11. 11Machine-shop job records and design change histories
  12. 12IT operations work that either held or did not
  13. 13Laboratory proficiency tests scored against the known answer
  14. 14Practical exams marked against a fixed sheet
  15. 15Simulator sessions and harbour pilots' recordings
  16. 16Veterinary records, from first complaint to outcome
  17. 17Insurance claim files held outside the big insurers
  18. 18Australian pay calculations and their back-pay corrections
  19. 19Australian financial advice files and their compliance verdicts
  20. 20Customs entries and what the border agency later decided
  21. 21The records of closing and failed companies in Australia
  22. 22Public inquiry exhibits and planning examination libraries
  23. 23Planners' changes to a software forecast, and what happened next
  24. 24Contests that produce graded expert reasoning
  25. 25Marine claims files: general average and demurrage
  26. 26Vending operators' and bookmakers' ledgers
  27. 27Heir-search files and travel agents' debit memos
  28. 28Three long shots: repair video, fire predictions, film cost reports
  29. 29The market for referring companies' records to buyers
  30. 30Failed companies' records sold as data
  31. 32Scored recordings of people doing practical computer work
  32. 33Records of people using AI at work, and correcting it
  33. 34Reselling datasets the leading labs have finished with
  34. 35Private tests of AI, kept secret and regularly refreshed
  35. 36The working records of biology laboratories
  36. 37The working records of cybersecurity firms
  37. 38Three files with an outside verdict: home-warranty claims, lawyers' negligence claims, and failed product tests
  38. 39Accounting and back-office files from India and the Philippines, and whether labs behind the frontier buy local data
  39. 40Records that must be made, not found
  40. 41Two smaller records: small-aircraft defect logs, and forecasts set against what happened
  41. 42Clinical records joined across scans, notes, tests and outcomes