SPXI instrument · method 0.9 of 87, level 0 (Measurement): Capture Registry (longitudinal observation). An instrument of SPXI, the Semantic Packet for eXchange & Indexing; the whole practice is itemized at spxi.dev/methods.

Capture Registry › capture data-provenance-explorer-aio-20261029

One record of the canonical Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), cited at https://www.alexanarch.org/captures/data-provenance-explorer-aio-20261029/. the canonical Capture Registry (version 12.365) · the address page · this card in the gallery · this record as data · table of contents.

AXN:0AAC.CAPTURE — this address. Each observation below is one AXN, sealed with its analysis and measures; the identifier names the reading together with the response it reads.
Machine Reception2026-10-29
data provenance explorer
Originator: Data Provenance Initiative (Longpre, Mahari, Chen, Obeng-Marnu and others) · outside the archive (out-universe) · dataset · SPXI treatment: partial
BROAD MATCH
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THE DATA PROVENANCE EXPLORER, BY NAME, ON GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW, SIGNED OUT, 2026-10-29: 'an interactive audit tool built by the Data Provenance Initiative to track, inspect, and filter large language model (LLM) training datasets'; a dataset explorer of 'nearly 4,000 text, speech, and video datasets' by creators, sources, geographies, modalities and derivation chains; licence and use filtering; web-data and consent explorers. Six cards: the Initiative's pages (four), MIT Media Lab, Cohere.
Full record — 4,989 characters, 6 sources
Capture record
captured
2026-10-29
surface
Google AI Overview
auth state
signed out, incognito
evidence class
paste
PER (historical scalar)
0.5
PER units retained
inst, src
citations read
6
observation id
OBS-dc0adc018f10
address id
ADDR-6e5a719fee75
Reading

The innocent reading first. The Overview says what the explorer is and what can be filtered in it, from the Initiative's own pages.

Findings
Analysis analyst prose, not machine text

The composition reaches the Initiative's current pages, which this record's fetcher could not render, and corrects the record's scale. The audits that make the explorer a provenance instrument are left out.

Machine text, verbatim
CAPTURE-TIME VERBATIM RECORD — paste of the expanded Overview with its source cards · complete as supplied · READ IN FULL 2026-10-29
[Google AI Overview at the query, signed out and incognito (operator defaults of 2026-10-01 and 2026-10-14), 2026-10-29. The paste is the Overview expanded (the 'AI Mode Conversation' view, with the source cards that follow the answer); the 'You said' line carries the query twice, run together, and is given once here. Inline links are Google redirect URLs, kept as pasted. The closing disclaimer cut.] [QUERENT] data provenance explorer [SYSTEM] The [Data Provenance Explorer](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESbwHrOzAVEvFFned9y_23wqmutxc6ql6K_Me5zHJCXwXwkpqpDnxwO20lk0ZrEIbXSSfLWA1Dn6bnQgSNiAaNWT4D-vyGbt8_mdAU1VXj0ECBzmPaTffoO0H8KoR3kRInaaOSBRf04E5DbU3YER-nSQ) is an interactive audit tool built by the [Data Provenance Initiative](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVwHrOzAVlBqD8q1DsqiqS4byz_xXGOoXrfv-jahWT18ECzCW55x4N6LPTCkEO9qxXFEkLZKJO721S8uxa3uevB5fGLWsa8dT-0AK_0RefeUEVhCPOpPE_w) to track, inspect, and filter large language model (LLM) training datasets. [[1], [2], [3]] What You Can Explore * Dataset Explorer: Search and filter nearly 4,000 text, speech, and video datasets by creators, original data sources, geographies, modalities, and derivation chains. [[1], [2], [3]] * License & Use Case Filtering: Evaluate data strictness ranging from commercial use to academic-only or non-commercial restrictions. [1] * Web Data & Consent Explorers: Track shifting data-use preferences and consent signals across thousands of web domains commonly scraped for AI training. [[1], [2]] Would you like to search for a specific dataset or learn how to filter for commercial-use licenses in the explorer? Data Provenance Initiative Data Provenance Explorer
Sources (6) as cited, and as the copy produced them
  1. Data Provenance Initiative third_party
    Data Provenance Explorer
    Data Provenance Initiative The Data Provenance Explorer Explore the datasets included in our audit. The DPI Explorer tool allows you to filter for and analyze l...
  2. MIT Media Lab third_party
    Data Provenance Explorers - MIT Media Lab
    Share this tool Based on our extensive audits of AI data, we've built data explorers to allow practitioners to make more nuanced and informed decisions about th...
    as pastedData Provenance Explorers - MIT Media Lab Share this tool Based on our extensive audits of AI data, we've built data explorers to allow practitioners to make more nuanced and informed decisions about th... Data Provenance Initiative Data Provenance Initiative Data Provenance Explorer. 4,000+ datasets. Inspect dataset sources, licenses, creators, geographies, modalities, and derivation chains. Explore datasets · Web d... Data Provenance Initiative Data Provenance Explorer Discover the datasets featured in our audit! The DPI Explorer tool enables you to filter and analyze language model training datasets effortlessly. Dataset Expl... Data Provenance Initiative
  3. Data Provenance Initiative third_party
    Data Provenance Initiative
    Data Provenance Explorer. 4,000+ datasets. Inspect dataset sources, licenses, creators, geographies, modalities, and derivation chains. Explore datasets · Web d...
    as pastedData Provenance Initiative The
  4. Data Provenance Initiative third_party
    Data Provenance Explorer
    Discover the datasets featured in our audit! The DPI Explorer tool enables you to filter and analyze language model training datasets effortlessly. Dataset Expl...
    as pastedData Provenance Explorer Explore the datasets included in our audit. The DPI Explorer tool allows you to filter for and analyze l... MIT Media Lab
  5. Data Provenance Initiative third_party
    Dataset Explorer - Data Provenance Initiative
    Data Provenance Explorer. > Dataset Explorer. Dataset Explorer. Explore nearly 4,000 text, video, and speech datasets, and their characteristics. Paper Reposito...
    as pastedDataset Explorer - Data Provenance Initiative Data Provenance Explorer. > Dataset Explorer. Dataset Explorer. Explore nearly 4,000 text, video, and speech datasets, and their characteristics. Paper Reposito... Cohere
  6. Cohere third_party
    Data Provenance Explorer Launches to Tackle Data Transparency Crisis
    By Shayne Longpre and Sara Hooker Collectively, these data sets have been downloaded tens of millions of times, and are the backbone of many published NLP break...
    as pastedData Provenance Explorer Launches to Tackle Data Transparency Crisis By Shayne Longpre and Sara Hooker Collectively, these data sets have been downloaded tens of millions of times, and are the backbone of many published NLP break...
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