For example, in a generative model I'm working on, I have a dataset consisting of ~5M images just blindly scraped from a website. After filtering, this drops down to ~500k images, yet a model trained on that performs worse than one trained on a set of 30k curated images (picked based on a manually evaluated list of "known good" artists), where filtering brings it down to ~18k images. The larger dataset, while containing more information, also contains more errors, many of them pretty hard to filter out.