Amplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI
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| author | Rashid, Qazi Mamunur van Liemt, Erin Shih, Tiffany Ebinama, Amber Ramos, Karla Barrios Maji, Madhurima Verma, Aishwarya Kalia, Charu Smith-Loud, Jamila Nakatumba-Nabende, Joyce Baguma, Rehema Katumba, Andrew Mutebi, Chodrine Marvin, Jagen Wairagala, Eric Peter Bruce, Mugizi Oketta, Peter Nderu, Lawrence Obiajunwa, Obichi Oppong, Abigail Zimba, Michael Authors, Data |
| author_facet | Rashid, Qazi Mamunur van Liemt, Erin Shih, Tiffany Ebinama, Amber Ramos, Karla Barrios Maji, Madhurima Verma, Aishwarya Kalia, Charu Smith-Loud, Jamila Nakatumba-Nabende, Joyce Baguma, Rehema Katumba, Andrew Mutebi, Chodrine Marvin, Jagen Wairagala, Eric Peter Bruce, Mugizi Oketta, Peter Nderu, Lawrence Obiajunwa, Obichi Oppong, Abigail Zimba, Michael Authors, Data |
| contents | Current AI models often fail to account for local context and language, given the predominance of English and Western internet content in their training data. This hinders the global relevance, usefulness, and safety of these models as they gain more users around the globe. Amplify Initiative, a data platform and methodology, leverages expert communities to collect diverse, high-quality data to address the limitations of these models. The platform is designed to enable co-creation of datasets, provide access to high-quality multilingual datasets, and offer recognition to data authors. This paper presents the approach to co-creating datasets with domain experts (e.g., health workers, teachers) through a pilot conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda). In partnership with local researchers situated in these countries, the pilot demonstrated an end-to-end approach to co-creating data with 155 experts in sensitive domains (e.g., physicians, bankers, anthropologists, human and civil rights advocates). This approach, implemented with an Android app, resulted in an annotated dataset of 8,091 adversarial queries in seven languages (e.g., Luganda, Swahili, Chichewa), capturing nuanced and contextual information related to key themes such as misinformation and public interest topics. This dataset in turn can be used to evaluate models for their safety and cultural relevance within the context of these languages. |
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| spellingShingle | Amplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI Rashid, Qazi Mamunur van Liemt, Erin Shih, Tiffany Ebinama, Amber Ramos, Karla Barrios Maji, Madhurima Verma, Aishwarya Kalia, Charu Smith-Loud, Jamila Nakatumba-Nabende, Joyce Baguma, Rehema Katumba, Andrew Mutebi, Chodrine Marvin, Jagen Wairagala, Eric Peter Bruce, Mugizi Oketta, Peter Nderu, Lawrence Obiajunwa, Obichi Oppong, Abigail Zimba, Michael Authors, Data Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Current AI models often fail to account for local context and language, given the predominance of English and Western internet content in their training data. This hinders the global relevance, usefulness, and safety of these models as they gain more users around the globe. Amplify Initiative, a data platform and methodology, leverages expert communities to collect diverse, high-quality data to address the limitations of these models. The platform is designed to enable co-creation of datasets, provide access to high-quality multilingual datasets, and offer recognition to data authors. This paper presents the approach to co-creating datasets with domain experts (e.g., health workers, teachers) through a pilot conducted in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda). In partnership with local researchers situated in these countries, the pilot demonstrated an end-to-end approach to co-creating data with 155 experts in sensitive domains (e.g., physicians, bankers, anthropologists, human and civil rights advocates). This approach, implemented with an Android app, resulted in an annotated dataset of 8,091 adversarial queries in seven languages (e.g., Luganda, Swahili, Chichewa), capturing nuanced and contextual information related to key themes such as misinformation and public interest topics. This dataset in turn can be used to evaluate models for their safety and cultural relevance within the context of these languages. |
| title | Amplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14105 |