Custom scenario builder
For questions the curated examples do not cover.
Data Napkin Math
Editable scenarios for asking what AI revenue, copied libraries, data deals, and training-data mixes might cost, fund, or imply.
Each scenario opens progressively, starting with the summary result and revealing the shared assumptions and exact formula on request.
Paying for new labour
Commissioning New Datasets
How much would it cost to pay for a brand new LLM-scale pre-training dataset (say, ) assuming moderate freelance writing wages (say, )?
Dataset Cost
dollars
Distributing money
Compensating an Entire Copied Library at Settlement Rates
What would it cost to compensate an entire copied library (say, ) at a settlement-style rate per work (say, )?
Total Compensation
dollars
Distributing money
Distributing Money from Data Deals
If we distribute the payments from recent data deal (say, ) to some group of people (say, ), how much will each person get?
Per Person Revenue
dollars
Paying for new labour
Funding Expert Evaluation Questions from Data Deals
How many expert-eval questions could one data deal (say, ) fund at current expert rates (say, )?
Questions Funded
questions
Paying for new labour
Funding Continuous Physician Oversight for Medical AI
If feeling comfortable with medical AI meant asking some share of the world's physicians (say, ) out of a global pool of roughly to each spend about on audits, review, and oversight, what annual labor budget would that imply at current physician wages (say, )?
Annual Oversight Cost
dollars
Paying for new labour
Funding a Domain-Specific Physician Eval Set
How much would it cost to fund a domain-specific eval effort using a panel of physicians (say, ) for some review time each (say, ) at current physician wages (say, )?
Evaluation Cost
dollars
Paying for new labour
Producing an expert evaluation set
How much would it cost to pay for an eval dataset (say, ) assuming a per-question expert benchmark (say, )?
Dataset Cost
dollars
Making data scale vivid
Turning Pretraining Composition Shares into Absolute Tokens
How many absolute tokens would a books, code, or social share (say, ) represent at frontier scale (say, )?
Token Slice
tokens
Distributing money
Distributing AI Company Revenue Broadly
If we distribute AI revenue (say, ) to some group of people (say, ), how much will each person get?
Per Person Revenue
dollars
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This site is still evolving. It is built to make AI training-data and distribution debates easier to inspect with shared inputs and simple, editable math.
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