Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Pacific Data Exchange’s unusually intimate training-data catalog
Credibility concern recorded. The source reference remains available for verification and correction.
A public catalog lists datasets for research, AI training, and product development, with permitted-use labels and contact-for-pricing listings.
- For
- AI teams seeking training and evaluation data
- Worth noticing
- One featured listing describes 100 GB+ of workplace Slack, email, documents, slides, and source code.
Field notes
Catalog entries pair material descriptions with size and permitted-use labels, and the filters span domains such as healthcare, workplace, banking, and entertainment. Some listings describe especially sensitive source material, including medical records and private photo archives; the page’s claims about permissions or scrubbing remain claims on the page. The catalog totals also do not align: one link says 123 datasets, while another count refers to 119 beyond the featured selection.
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