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author Longpre, Shayne
Singh, Nikhil
Cherep, Manuel
Tiwary, Kushagra
Materzynska, Joanna
Brannon, William
Mahari, Robert
Obeng-Marnu, Naana
Dey, Manan
Hamdy, Mohammed
Saxena, Nayan
Anis, Ahmad Mustafa
Alghamdi, Emad A.
Chien, Vu Minh
Yin, Da
Qian, Kun
Li, Yizhi
Liang, Minnie
Dinh, An
Mohanty, Shrestha
Mataciunas, Deividas
South, Tobin
Zhang, Jianguo
Lee, Ariel N.
Lund, Campbell S.
Klamm, Christopher
Sileo, Damien
Misra, Diganta
Shippole, Enrico
Klyman, Kevin
Miranda, Lester JV
Muennighoff, Niklas
Ye, Seonghyeon
Kim, Seungone
Gupta, Vipul
Sharma, Vivek
Zhou, Xuhui
Xiong, Caiming
Villa, Luis
Biderman, Stella
Pentland, Alex
Hooker, Sara
Kabbara, Jad
author_facet Longpre, Shayne
Singh, Nikhil
Cherep, Manuel
Tiwary, Kushagra
Materzynska, Joanna
Brannon, William
Mahari, Robert
Obeng-Marnu, Naana
Dey, Manan
Hamdy, Mohammed
Saxena, Nayan
Anis, Ahmad Mustafa
Alghamdi, Emad A.
Chien, Vu Minh
Yin, Da
Qian, Kun
Li, Yizhi
Liang, Minnie
Dinh, An
Mohanty, Shrestha
Mataciunas, Deividas
South, Tobin
Zhang, Jianguo
Lee, Ariel N.
Lund, Campbell S.
Klamm, Christopher
Sileo, Damien
Misra, Diganta
Shippole, Enrico
Klyman, Kevin
Miranda, Lester JV
Muennighoff, Niklas
Ye, Seonghyeon
Kim, Seungone
Gupta, Vipul
Sharma, Vivek
Zhou, Xuhui
Xiong, Caiming
Villa, Luis
Biderman, Stella
Pentland, Alex
Hooker, Sara
Kabbara, Jad
contents Progress in AI is driven largely by the scale and quality of training data. Despite this, there is a deficit of empirical analysis examining the attributes of well-established datasets beyond text. In this work we conduct the largest and first-of-its-kind longitudinal audit across modalities--popular text, speech, and video datasets--from their detailed sourcing trends and use restrictions to their geographical and linguistic representation. Our manual analysis covers nearly 4000 public datasets between 1990-2024, spanning 608 languages, 798 sources, 659 organizations, and 67 countries. We find that multimodal machine learning applications have overwhelmingly turned to web-crawled, synthetic, and social media platforms, such as YouTube, for their training sets, eclipsing all other sources since 2019. Secondly, tracing the chain of dataset derivations we find that while less than 33% of datasets are restrictively licensed, over 80% of the source content in widely-used text, speech, and video datasets, carry non-commercial restrictions. Finally, counter to the rising number of languages and geographies represented in public AI training datasets, our audit demonstrates measures of relative geographical and multilingual representation have failed to significantly improve their coverage since 2013. We believe the breadth of our audit enables us to empirically examine trends in data sourcing, restrictions, and Western-centricity at an ecosystem-level, and that visibility into these questions are essential to progress in responsible AI. As a contribution to ongoing improvements in dataset transparency and responsible use, we release our entire multimodal audit, allowing practitioners to trace data provenance across text, speech, and video.
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spellingShingle Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech and Video
Longpre, Shayne
Singh, Nikhil
Cherep, Manuel
Tiwary, Kushagra
Materzynska, Joanna
Brannon, William
Mahari, Robert
Obeng-Marnu, Naana
Dey, Manan
Hamdy, Mohammed
Saxena, Nayan
Anis, Ahmad Mustafa
Alghamdi, Emad A.
Chien, Vu Minh
Yin, Da
Qian, Kun
Li, Yizhi
Liang, Minnie
Dinh, An
Mohanty, Shrestha
Mataciunas, Deividas
South, Tobin
Zhang, Jianguo
Lee, Ariel N.
Lund, Campbell S.
Klamm, Christopher
Sileo, Damien
Misra, Diganta
Shippole, Enrico
Klyman, Kevin
Miranda, Lester JV
Muennighoff, Niklas
Ye, Seonghyeon
Kim, Seungone
Gupta, Vipul
Sharma, Vivek
Zhou, Xuhui
Xiong, Caiming
Villa, Luis
Biderman, Stella
Pentland, Alex
Hooker, Sara
Kabbara, Jad
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Machine Learning
Multimedia
Progress in AI is driven largely by the scale and quality of training data. Despite this, there is a deficit of empirical analysis examining the attributes of well-established datasets beyond text. In this work we conduct the largest and first-of-its-kind longitudinal audit across modalities--popular text, speech, and video datasets--from their detailed sourcing trends and use restrictions to their geographical and linguistic representation. Our manual analysis covers nearly 4000 public datasets between 1990-2024, spanning 608 languages, 798 sources, 659 organizations, and 67 countries. We find that multimodal machine learning applications have overwhelmingly turned to web-crawled, synthetic, and social media platforms, such as YouTube, for their training sets, eclipsing all other sources since 2019. Secondly, tracing the chain of dataset derivations we find that while less than 33% of datasets are restrictively licensed, over 80% of the source content in widely-used text, speech, and video datasets, carry non-commercial restrictions. Finally, counter to the rising number of languages and geographies represented in public AI training datasets, our audit demonstrates measures of relative geographical and multilingual representation have failed to significantly improve their coverage since 2013. We believe the breadth of our audit enables us to empirically examine trends in data sourcing, restrictions, and Western-centricity at an ecosystem-level, and that visibility into these questions are essential to progress in responsible AI. As a contribution to ongoing improvements in dataset transparency and responsible use, we release our entire multimodal audit, allowing practitioners to trace data provenance across text, speech, and video.
title Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech and Video
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Machine Learning
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.17847