This is where the data to build AI comes from
MIT Technology Review December 18, 2024
New findings show how the sources of data are concentrating power in the hands of the most powerful tech companies.
AI is all about data. Reams and reams of data are needed to train algorithms to do what we want, and what goes into the AI models determines what comes out. But here’s the problem: AI developers and researchers don’t really know much about the sources of the data they are using. AI’s data collection practices are immature compared with the sophistication of AI model development. Massive data sets often lack clear information about what is in them and where it came from.
The Data Provenance Initiative, a group of over 50 researchers from both academia and industry, wanted...