I didn’t continue writing about sample checks or reserves; instead, I thought of the Datanet from @OpenLedger as an ER triage desk. Initially, I thought the focus of Proof of Attribution was on 'whose data was used,' but I realized there’s an even more critical step: whether the model requests were actually sent to the correct data set. If the routing is off, no matter how diligently we attribute later, we’re still accountable for the wrong path.
This situation is like hospital triage. When a patient comes in, the first step is to determine whether they should go to orthopedics, cardiology, or the emergency room. The triage staff aren’t doctors, but if they send someone in the wrong direction, all the subsequent doctors might waste their time. The same goes for the AI data network. When a model request comes in, the system needs to decide which Datanet it should use, which contributors’ data to pull from, and which sources are more reliable. If a request needs real-time market data but gets routed to outdated data; or if it needs on-chain transaction samples but is sent to generic articles, then the money paid by the buyer and the money distributed to contributors will both be off. $OPEN
I did a rough calculation. Assuming there are 3000 model calls a day, with an average of 0.05U each, that’s 150U in revenue. If only 4% of requests are routed to mismatched datasets, that's 120 misrouted calls, equating to 6U in revenue. 6U doesn’t sound like much, but the issue isn’t the 6U itself; it’s that it’s going to data sources that shouldn’t be getting paid, while the genuinely useful sources miss out on their share. Over a month, that adds up to 3600 misrouted calls and a 180U revenue discrepancy.
So I think the toughest part after @OpenLedger isn’t just proving 'the data was called,' but showing 'why this batch of data should have been used for this call.' If Proof of Attribution only logs the results, users see a ledger; but if it can clarify the routing rationale, then users are seeing the decision chain.
If these three things are clear, OpenLedger isn't just an attribution ledger; it's more like a dispatch system that routes AI requests to the right data departments. If that doesn't happen, the more data there is, the more likely we end up with a false sense of prosperity, where it seems like there are many calls, but they’re actually being sent to the wrong departments. #OpenLedger
