The <a href="https://www.dataprovenance.org/">Data Provenance Initiative</a> is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their <a href="https://www.dataprovenance.org/data-provenance-explorer">Explorer tool</a> allows users to filter and analyze the training datasets typically used by large language models.
Shayne and Robert are the authors of a new study called <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14933">Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons</a>: the first large-scale, longitudinal audit of the consent protocols for the web domains underlying AI training sets.
Connect with Shayne via <a href="https://www.shaynelongpre.com/">his website</a>.
Connect with Robert via <a href="https://robertmahari.com/">his website</a> or on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-mahari-874310157/">LinkedIn</a>. 
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The Data Provenance Initiative is a collective of volunteer AI researchers from around the world. They conduct large-scale audits of the massive datasets that power state-of-the-art AI models with a goal of mapping the landscape of AI training data to improve transparency, documentation, and informed use of data. Their Explorer tool allows users to filter [&hellip;]

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Tragedy of the (data) commons