Meanwhile, BOINC is right there, with far more useful work for your idle GPU to do.

They need massive amounts of data. There is simply no way to manually curate data on that scale, short of hiring like a million people. It’s very likely that they do use some sort of automated filtering to curate the data though.

If we can throw tens of millions of soldiers into meat grinders for wars, then I think hiring a few million people to curate data is table stakes by comparison.

The monopoly wannabe asks the actual monopoly for help becoming a monopoly.