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I was a bit alarmed by this, a client brought in that Colombia data for their dissertation last month, and did not mention this. I looked up the paper https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2509.04523 - what they /actually/ did was use GPT 4o-mini only for feature extraction, then stack into a random forest in a supervised setting to dedupe. This is very different than what he described. And the GPT features weren't even the most important ones, the RF preferred cosine similarity of articles, a decidedly not-large approach...
That he went from that all the way to it's mostly ok when sam altman steals all your data, misrepresents it and then steals all your traffic is... bad.
At any rate it's definitely good to know that that war crime forensics data project isn't quite the unintentional shambles corey makes it out to be.