Storing the last changed date for every single person on earth (even though not every person is an OpenAI customer) is something you could easily do on a laptop

Storing the last changed date for every single person on earth (even though not every person is an OpenAI customer) is something you could easily do on a laptop. It would be a rounding error for OpenAI. I don't know what format they use for storage, but Iceberg would be a reasonable choice. A date in iceberg format is 4 bytes[1]. I checked postgres as well as a reference point. It also uses 4 bytes for a date, so whatever they use it's going to be about that. Current world population is just shy of 8.3 Billion people [2]. 4 bytes times 8.3 billion people gives 30.92 GiB. [3] OpenAI's training data will be in the petabyte range at least. [1] https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/#schema-evolution https://iceberg.apache.org/spec/#schema-evolution [2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/ https://worldpopulationreview.com/ and elsewhere, say census.gov if you want a US source https://www.census.gov/popclock/world https://www.census.gov/popclock/world [3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=4+bytes+*+8.3+billion+in+TB https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=4+bytes+*+8.3+billion+i...