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Data Provenance Initiative is a volunteer collective of AI researchers auditing AI training data: 1,800+ text datasets in its 2023 first release, now four public measurement systems from datasets and web consent to model markets and real use (its pages); the archive sets it in the licensing dimension of provenance, bounded at the corpus (#725).
F40 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldF45 Data Provenance Initiative — About, /about (xh): ¶1 documented · fieldPE-02 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedPE-04 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-03 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationF23 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, article body ¶4 documented · fieldF9 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Public-interest infrastructure' documented · fieldF46 Data Provenance Initiative — About, /about (xh): ¶1 documented · fieldF1 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), served HTML: meta description documented · fieldF2 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): hero documented · fieldF3 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Flagship systems' documented · fieldF30 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶3 documented · fieldF18 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF15 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Training Data Provenance' documented · fieldPE-22 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-05 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-06 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-09 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-07 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedO725-03 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationO725-05 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationO725-15 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationO725-06 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationF16 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, abstract page header documented · fieldF29 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, article header documented · fieldPE-15 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedF17 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF31 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶6 documented · fieldF41 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldPE-10 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedF22 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF34 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, contributions, second documented · fieldF42 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldF25 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'two key actions', second documented · fieldPE-08 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedPE-01 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-18 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-19 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationPE-13 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedF4 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Data Provenance Explorer' (constant xr) documented · fieldF5 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Web Consent Explorer' documented · fieldF6 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Open Model Evolution' documented · fieldF7 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'The AI Observatory' documented · fieldF8 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): metrics strip (constant br) documented · fieldPE-14 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedPE-20 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 self-descriptionCAP-1-05 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-06 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-10 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. interpretationCAP-1-07 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. stipulationCAP-1-11 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. interpretationF11 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, 'Consent in Crisis' documented · fieldF12 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, the multimodal audit documented · fieldF13 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, the model economy and real-world use documented · fieldF28 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, article body, closing ¶ before the quote documented · fieldF24 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'two key actions', first documented · fieldF20 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF21 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldPE-12 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedPE-11 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedPE-21 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 attributedF32 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶5 documented · fieldF33 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶5 documented · fieldCAP-1-02 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-01 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedD725-02 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven attributedD725-16 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationD1714-01 #1714 Meaning Feudalism at the Discovery Layer: Shepherds, Raw Research Data, and the Allocation of Semantic Capital in OpenAI attributedF35 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, licence findings documented · fieldF19 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF36 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, 'In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences' documented · fieldF37 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, licence-category comparison documented · fieldF14 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): findings strip documented · fieldF38 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, 'Language representation is heavily skewed …' documented · fieldF27 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'other issues', second documented · fieldF26 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, article body ¶2 documented · fieldF43 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, 'Legal Notice and Limitations' documented · fieldF39 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Methods, 'Licence annotation process' documented · fieldF47 Data Provenance Initiative — About, /about: note documented · fieldPE-16 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 documentedPE-17 provenance-census Provenance meta-aggregator census (provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/), record data-provenance-initiative, compiled 2026 stipulationCAP-1-08 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedD725-01 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationD725-04 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationD725-10 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven stipulationO725-11 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stipulationD98-01 #98 Distributed Compute Is Not Distributed Intelligence: A Competitive Analysis of the DePIN Landscape and the Missing Civic stipulationD98-02 #98 Distributed Compute Is Not Distributed Intelligence: A Competitive Analysis of the DePIN Landscape and the Missing Civic stipulationD98-05 #98 Distributed Compute Is Not Distributed Intelligence: A Competitive Analysis of the DePIN Landscape and the Missing Civic stipulationO98-03 #98 Distributed Compute Is Not Distributed Intelligence: A Competitive Analysis of the DePIN Landscape and the Missing Civic stipulationR98-04 #98 Distributed Compute Is Not Distributed Intelligence: A Competitive Analysis of the DePIN Landscape and the Missing Civic documentedD1714-02 #1714 Meaning Feudalism at the Discovery Layer: Shepherds, Raw Research Data, and the Allocation of Semantic Capital in OpenAI stipulationD1714-03 #1714 Meaning Feudalism at the Discovery Layer: Shepherds, Raw Research Data, and the Allocation of Semantic Capital in OpenAI stipulationD1714-04 #1714 Meaning Feudalism at the Discovery Layer: Shepherds, Raw Research Data, and the Allocation of Semantic Capital in OpenAI stipulationO95-01 #95 Provenance Alignment: Attribution Survival as a Substrate Condition for Safe AI Knowledge Composition stipulationO623-01 #623 Semantic Infrastructure: From Tim Berners-Lee to the Semantic Economy — Bridging Technical and Political-Economic Framew stipulationF10 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Policy and governance relevance'; 'Featured coverage' documented · fieldF44 Wikipedia — Data Provenance Initiative (no article), Wikipedia: title Data_Provenance_Initiative documented · fieldD725-14 #725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven hypothesisCAP-1-09 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. interpretationCAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-13 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-12 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documented[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.] [QUERENT] Data Provenance Initiative [SYSTEM] The [Data Provenance Initiative](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVwHrOzAVIs_bBUxr7ducYJKxi6mO2H8PFkOqeMYxYB9BZOGggLJumXN31RQqX2ghNJ2wlF1SU0MHuuvc_7Cgibm_RylNPmv9oYEqoRYseVd3oqu3XZKm1g) is a multi-institutional research project—led in part by researchers from MIT—that audits the datasets, licenses, and web domains used to train artificial intelligence models. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVwHrOzAVIs_bBUxr7ducYJKxi6mO2H8PFkOqeMYxYB9BZOGggLJumXN31RQqX2ghNJ2wlF1SU0MHuuvc_7Cgibm_RylNPmv9oYEqoRYseVd3oqu3XZKm1g), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESqQEB6zswFet87RYIXm3SERz1TKVCghLBNX4HMFbQtx13MaYHj6MDNSA37R0c7ew2FcMKY0uwIb26y1xAvejdbImAK8Q_LTnWNuKmR8qSQN1qnnLlzv64o7kxJszSYWKAOBs9at3KmLXdTqZoVWPghfJ919vtbMoyd1dBDa3EUPb04SLEOewf5nEuwcxJIK3tbZkdhSMe8_ovQaLxzbMOag7gPLlf4I31cXOb)] Key Tools & Platforms * Data Provenance Explorer: An interactive tool that audits and filters over 1,800+ text and fine-tuning datasets across dozens of collections to inspect sources, lineages, and license types. * Web Consent Explorer: A system that tracks thousands of web domains for consent signals and web policies. * Open Model Evolution: A monitor tracking open-source and open-weight AI models for transparency and concentration. * AI Observatory: A comparative tool for analyzing real-world AI conversation sets. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWAHrOzAVPyKzeU_QMzOf7n22XqYG0KKTgi5Z-PwZ7GxKjlEAW5l2-E65BnypNfmou0_MVC8loaXdqlCyTHI5KJIgRZIQWyxmBUnIZGUKIrLwEMZt9FHY3wc), [2](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESqQEB6zswFet87RYIXm3SERz1TKVCghLBNX4HMFbQtx13MaYHj6MDNSA37R0c7ew2FcMKY0uwIb26y1xAvejdbImAK8Q_LTnWNuKmR8qSQN1qnnLlzv64o7kxJszSYWKAOBs9at3KmLXdTqZoVWPghfJ919vtbMoyd1dBDa3EUPb04SLEOewf5nEuwcxJIK3tbZkdhSMe8_ovQaLxzbMOag7gPLlf4I31cXOb), [3](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESVwHrOzAVIs_bBUxr7ducYJKxi6mO2H8PFkOqeMYxYB9BZOGggLJumXN31RQqX2ghNJ2wlF1SU0MHuuvc_7Cgibm_RylNPmv9oYEqoRYseVd3oqu3XZKm1g)] Major Findings from Audits * License Omission & Errors: Widely used hosting platforms exhibit over a 70% license omission rate and more than 50% error rates in how they categorize dataset licenses. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWAHrOzAVPyKzeU_QMzOf7n22XqYG0KKTgi5Z-PwZ7GxKjlEAW5l2-E65BnypNfmou0_MVC8loaXdqlCyTHI5KJIgRZIQWyxmBUnIZGUKIrLwEMZt9FHY3wc)] * Composition Divides: Commercially closed or restrictive datasets often monopolize creative tasks, specialized topics, and lower-resource languages. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESWAHrOzAVPyKzeU_QMzOf7n22XqYG0KKTgi5Z-PwZ7GxKjlEAW5l2-E65BnypNfmou0_MVC8loaXdqlCyTHI5KJIgRZIQWyxmBUnIZGUKIrLwEMZt9FHY3wc)] * Non-Commercial Spikes: There has been a significant rise in non-commercial and academic-only licenses, frequently driven by synthetic data generated via commercial APIs. [[1](https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAESagHrOzAVZJUi_F28cTVTNDyVGy5o6we0skjvkFWVNKew85OiArqy4UZIJs_HB3iYrw47y7IANWFpbJwvPeNn-_KvDgyFI0xIBWwUWyPbE1ituE9-vBcMmutKajo2Z4cvEYj9YNkbsKyOPKg)] Would you like to explore how to use the Data Provenance Explorer, or look into specific dataset licenses? Data Provenance Initiative Data Provenance Initiative Platforms: Data Provenance Initiative (maps AI datasets, web policies, model markets, real-world use). Metrics: 4,000+ audited datasets; 14,000 tracked web doma... arXiv [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI Audit: 1800+ text datasets traced and audited by legal and machine learning experts to evaluate licensing, lineage, and attribution in AI training. Findings: Co... MIT Sloan Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence | MIT Sloan Problem: Untraced AI training datasets cause legal, copyright, regulatory, bias, and quality risks due to poor documentation and high license error rates (>50%) Nature A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI | Nature Machine Intelligence Audit: 1,858 text/finetuning datasets across 44 collections evaluated for licensing, attribution, and lineage via the Data Provenance Initiative and DPExplorer.
The Data Provenance Initiative is, in its repository's words, "a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI," and on its About page "a volunteer collective of AI researchers conducting large-scale audits of the systems and resources that shape modern AI" (README; dataprovenance.org/about); the provenance census record gives its operator as the Initiative itself, a "volunteer effort" with a "paper by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors," kinds it an "audit collection and explorer" and sets it in the lineage of "training data" (provenance census record). MIT Sloan's account has "a team of multidisciplinary researchers, including professor Sandy Pentland and others from MIT," create the Initiative "to tackle the data transparency challenge head-on" (MIT Sloan, 3 March 2025), and the home page says that "DPI releases papers, datasets, and dashboards that help researchers, journalists, policymakers, and builders reason from shared evidence" (dataprovenance.org). Its work, the About page says, "began with training data provenance: tracing datasets from origin to creation, cataloging sources, licenses, creators, and documentation practices" and "now also covers web consent, open model markets, concentration of power, and how people use AI systems in practice" (dataprovenance.org/about); the home page calls it "Public measurement infrastructure for AI data, model ecosystems, and real-world AI use," which "maps the datasets, web policies, model markets, and real-world AI uses that shape how AI systems are built and governed" through "Four public measurement systems" (dataprovenance.org).
The founding audit's authors name its object: "we term the combination of these indicators, including a dataset's sourcing, creation and licensing heritage, as well as its characteristics, the 'data provenance'" (Nature Machine Intelligence, 30 August 2024), traced "from their source, creators, series of license conditions, properties, and subsequent use" (arXiv:2310.16787), and the home page's "Training Data Provenance" traces "the sources, licenses, creators, languages, geographies, and derivation chains behind public AI training datasets" (dataprovenance.org). The provenance census asks of each entity it formalizes "What provenance does this system carry, through which operation, on whose assertion, with what evidence of survival?" and answers for the Initiative that it records, of the three capabilities express, record and test: its object "a fine-tuning dataset, traced through its collection to its sources," its unit "a dataset within a collection," its relations derivation, creators, licences and subsequent use, the last field restating the paper's lineage (provenance census record). #725 sets that object in the second dimension of provenance, "training-corpus licensing," which "has academic instrumentation and emerging legal architecture," its object "The corpus" and its question "Under what permissions did this data enter this system?", with the Initiative among its frameworks and among provenance's disciplinary homes as "dataset documentation (DPI, model cards, dataset cards)," and states that the dimensions of artifact, licensing and meaning are independent: "a licensed dataset can produce outputs with excellent semantic provenance if the synthesis preserves attribution" (#725).
The founding paper was submitted on 25 October 2023 and revised on 4 November 2023, "by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors" (arXiv:2310.16787), and published in Nature Machine Intelligence, volume 6, on 30 August 2024 (Nature Machine Intelligence); the census dates the entity from the preprint, "2023 (arXiv:2310.16787, v1 25 October 2023)" (provenance census record). It convened "a multi-disciplinary effort between legal and machine learning experts to systematically audit and trace 1800+ text datasets" (arXiv), in the journal "44 instruction or 'alignment' finetuning data collections composed of 1,858 individual datasets" (Nature Machine Intelligence), the release the repository calls the Data Provenance Collection and "this initiative's first release" (README), and the count the census carries, "44 data collections, 1800+ fine-tuning text-to-text datasets (first release)," as of the README (provenance census record); MIT Sloan gives "more than 1,800 text datasets" from "44 of the most widely used text data collections" (MIT Sloan).
With the audit came "an interactive UI, the Data Provenance Explorer, which allows practitioners to trace and filter on data provenance for the most popular open source finetuning data collections" (arXiv), in the journal "an open-source repository for downloading, filtering and exploring data provenance and characteristics" whose tools "auto-generate data provenance cards for scalable symbolic attribution" (Nature Machine Intelligence); the repository's Data Provenance Card is "symbolic attribution for all constituent datasets, that can be used as structured documentation" (README), "human-readable" in MIT Sloan's account (MIT Sloan), and the census carries it as the entity's provenance carrier beside "audit metadata per dataset" (provenance census record). The census gives Data Provenance Explorer, Data Provenance Collection and Data Provenance Card as other names of the entity and states its relation to them twice: among its negative tags, "initiative, explorer and collection are distinct records," and on its sibling relation to the MMRS meta-aggregator's record of the explorer, "the same entity, read for reception there and for provenance carriage here"; it records the Explorer as "a JavaScript application, unreadable to a plain fetch" (provenance census record).
The home page's four systems are the Data Provenance Explorer ("4,000+ datasets," "608 languages across text, speech, and video," inspecting "dataset sources, licenses, creators, geographies, modalities, and derivation chains"), the Web Consent Explorer ("14,000 domains," "Terms, robots.txt, and crawl restrictions"), Open Model Evolution ("851k open models," "2.2B downloads") and The AI Observatory ("23,158 conversations," "85,633 turns from 7 public sources") (dataprovenance.org). Its metrics read "4,000+" "datasets audited," "14,000" "web domains tracked," "851k" "open models measured" and "23,158" "AI conversations annotated," and its publications carry the later work: Consent in Crisis (NeurIPS 2024), the multimodal audit, "An audit of four thousand public text, speech, and video datasets" (ICLR 2025), Economies of Open Intelligence (preprint) and The AI Observatory (NeurIPS 2026) (dataprovenance.org); in March 2025 MIT Sloan still had the work "currently focused on the data provenance of text," with a plan "to expand to other media, such as video" (MIT Sloan). The census carries the entity as "active" and lists "the Explorer itself (JavaScript)" and "the multimodal extension (arXiv:2412.17847)" among what it has not yet checked (provenance census record); the Capture Registry finds that "The record has one explorer and the first release's count," that the home-page card gives "four platforms and '4,000+ audited datasets; 14,000 tracked web domains'," that the composition is "ahead of the record on the entity's current extent," and that "The census is to re-read dataprovenance.org and carry the platforms and the current count with their quotes," the capture being "a correction to be made from the entity's own page" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).
The founding audit observed "frequent miscategorization of licenses on widely used dataset hosting sites, with license omission of 70%+ and error rates of 50%+," which "points to a crisis in misattribution and informed use of the most popular datasets driving many recent breakthroughs" (arXiv), the result the census records as what survived the operation it tested, "dataset repackaging and hosting (licence carried or lost on hosting sites)" (provenance census record). The journal gives the measure by platform, "more than 70% of licences for popular datasets on GitHub and Hugging Face are 'unspecified'" and "66% of analysed Hugging Face licences were in a different use category, often labelled as more permissive than the author's original licence," and names "a crisis in licence laundering" (Nature Machine Intelligence); MIT Sloan restates error rates "greater than 50%" and omission rates "of more than 70%" (MIT Sloan). The Capture Registry checked these figures "against the provenance census record of the same day and the entity pages it saved" and calls the 70%/50% wording "the record's quote from the repository README" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29), where the census gives it as what "the founding paper reports" (provenance census record). "In total, 85% of dataset licences request attribution, and 30% include a share-alike clause" (Nature Machine Intelligence); #725 carries these figures with the omission and error rates and reads them as the licensing dimension's ground, "The DPI's documentation of 70%+ license-omission rates establishes the licensing dimension's urgency" (#725), and #1714 reads the finding as "how much is lost before training even begins" (#1714). Of the commercial divide the preprint finds "closed datasets monopolizing important categories: lower resource languages, more creative tasks, richer topic variety, newer and more synthetic training data" (arXiv); the journal records that "In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences," "the NC/A-O rate is 61%" that year, and that "a full 45% of NC/A-O datasets are synthetic, compared to <14% in more permissive licence categories" (Nature Machine Intelligence); the home page's findings are "Source content often carries stricter terms than dataset releases," "Open weights now outpace truly open-source models" and "No single public conversation source generalizes across AI use" (dataprovenance.org). The journal finds "a stark Western-centric skew in representation" (Nature Machine Intelligence), MIT Sloan language "heavily skewed toward English and Western European languages," and MIT Sloan states the stake: without lineage, users "may find themselves out of compliance with emerging regulations like the European Union's AI Act or exposed to legal and copyright risks" (MIT Sloan).
Its stated limits: "any output of the Data Provenance Initiative does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice" (README); the licence protocol "reflects best efforts to verify self-reported licences and does not constitute legal advice" (Nature Machine Intelligence); "We collect self-reported licenses from the papers and repositories that released these datasets and categorize them according to our best efforts" (dataprovenance.org/about); the census tags it "NOT legal advice (its own notice)" and adds that "describing a collection does not establish which model used it" (provenance census record), and the Capture Registry finds both tags "not composed" at the name (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).
#725 states the bound in its canonical claim, that existing frameworks "address the artifact (C2PA / Content Credentials) and the corpus (Data Provenance Initiative, EU AI Act transparency provisions, W3C PROV)" and "are not designed to address the survival of authorial lineage through AI synthesis": the Initiative "audits whether datasets were licensed, not whether synthesized outputs preserve attribution to the human sources whose labor the synthesis depended upon," stands at "Layer 2 (licensing)," "Necessary but operates on corpus, not synthesis output," and licensing provenance "operates at corpus-ingestion stage" (#725). "Licensing audits operate on the input to AI systems. They do not address the output" (#725, emphasis dropped): "The Data Provenance Initiative tells you whether the dataset was licensed," and none of the instruments "was designed to tell you what happened to the meaning between the camera and the screen, between the dataset and the answer"; the path from the Initiative runs through "dataset licensing" to "what about what the model produces from the licensed data?" and so to semantic provenance, which extends provenance "to the lifecycle of the meaning the content carries," with the Initiative as "layer 2 of" provenance after AI (#725). #1003 groups the Initiative with C2PA and W3C PROV as "Provenance and attribution studies" that "have focused on attribution loss in AI outputs" (#1003), a reading composed beside #725's bound at the input.
#98 tables the Initiative (MIT) as documenting "provenance of popular AI training datasets," a "Documentation project, not infrastructure," and Consent in Crisis as a "Diagnostic paper," in the pattern "They diagnose the crisis or build narrow fixes"; it sets the Initiative at "L4: Provenance / Consent," where what is missing is "Integrated provenance in training pipeline," and records the archive's own provenance schema as taken from it, "Implemented (in CHA)" (#98). #1714 draws the requirement, "Provenance has to survive the training pipeline," and "Sources can be recorded at ingestion, the record kept with the training set," with the Initiative's literature bearing "on whether slushing is a fixed property of pipelines" (#1714); #95 names "training-data provenance records" among the companion infrastructure for parametric claims, which PER reaches "only indirectly" (#95), and #623 calls standardized documentation of training-data provenance "a step toward the accounting the framework demands" (#623).
The home page lists coverage by "the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and VentureBeat" and citation in "public AI safety and governance reporting" (dataprovenance.org); Wikipedia has no article on it (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29); #725 predicted that broad queries "will be dominated by C2PA/CAI publications, DPI papers, and major media for the foreseeable future" (#725). At the bare name on Google's AI Overview the Capture Registry reads the composition first as identifying "the project," listing "its tools" and reporting "what its audits found, from its own site, its paper and the press," then finds that its "'multi-institutional research project—led in part by researchers from MIT'" "follows the MIT Sloan card," that "the composition names no one" ("MIT named; no person; no identifier"), and that "no card cites" the census record, which "landed on provenanceerasure.org the same day" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).
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#725 Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Proven hypothesisCAP-1-09 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. interpretationCAP-1-03 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-04 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-13 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedCAP-1-12 capture-registry Capture Registry (EA-WG-CAPTURES-01), entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 (OBS-118fbafa73c9, AXN:0ACD.CAPTURE. documentedData Provenance Initiative is a volunteer collective of AI researchers auditing AI training data, since its 2023 audit of 1,800+ text datasets, and now four public measurement systems (its pages; arXiv).
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Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF15 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Training Data Provenance' documented · fieldF16 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, abstract page header documented · fieldF17 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF31 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶6 documented · fieldF41 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldF29 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, article header documented · fieldF22 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF34 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, contributions, second documented · fieldF42 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldF25 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'two key actions', second documented · fieldF4 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Data Provenance Explorer' (constant xr) documented · fieldF5 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Web Consent Explorer' documented · fieldF6 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Open Model Evolution' documented · fieldF7 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'The AI Observatory' documented · fieldF8 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): metrics strip (constant br) documented · fieldF11 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, 'Consent in Crisis' documented · fieldF12 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, the multimodal audit documented · fieldF13 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, the model economy and real-world use documented · fieldF28 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, article body, closing ¶ before the quote documented · fieldF24 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'two key actions', first documented · fieldF20 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF21 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF32 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶5 documented · fieldF33 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶5 documented · fieldF35 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, licence findings documented · fieldF19 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF36 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, 'In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences' documented · fieldF37 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, licence-category comparison documented · fieldF14 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 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Wikipedia: title Data_Provenance_Initiative documented · fieldThe Data Provenance Initiative describes itself as "a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI" (README) and as "a volunteer collective of AI researchers conducting large-scale audits of the systems and resources that shape modern AI" (About page). MIT Sloan says researchers "including professor Sandy Pentland and others from MIT" created it (MIT Sloan, 2025), and it releases "papers, datasets, and dashboards" for reasoning "from shared evidence" (home page). Its work began with training data provenance and now also covers web consent, open model markets, concentration of power and real-world use; the home page calls it "Public measurement infrastructure for AI data, model ecosystems, and real-world AI use," with four public measurement systems (About page; home page).
The systems are the Data Provenance Explorer (4,000+ datasets, 608 languages), the Web Consent Explorer (14,000 domains), Open Model Evolution (851k open models) and The AI Observatory (23,158 conversations) (home page). The founding audit, by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors (arXiv:2310.16787, 25 October 2023; Nature Machine Intelligence, 30 August 2024), traced 1800+ text datasets, 1,858 in 44 collections, the Data Provenance Collection of its first release (arXiv; Nature; README; MIT Sloan). Its authors define data provenance as a dataset's "sourcing, creation and licensing heritage, as well as its characteristics" (Nature), traced from source and creators through licence conditions to subsequent use (arXiv; home page).
It released the audit with an interactive UI, the Data Provenance Explorer, and a Data Provenance Card, "symbolic attribution for all constituent datasets" (arXiv; Nature; README; MIT Sloan). The audit found licence omission of 70%+ and error rates of 50%+ on hosting sites, a "crisis in misattribution" (arXiv), with over 70% of GitHub and Hugging Face licences unspecified and 66% of Hugging Face licences in another use category, "licence laundering" (Nature). 85% of licences request attribution and 30% share-alike; closed datasets hold lower-resource languages and creative tasks; in 2023 non-commercial licences spiked to 61%, and 45% of such datasets are synthetic (Nature; arXiv; home page).
Representation skews Western, and untraced data risks regulatory non-compliance and copyright exposure (Nature; MIT Sloan). Later audits followed: Consent in Crisis (NeurIPS 2024) and four thousand text, speech and video datasets (ICLR 2025), with work on open models and real-world use (home page; MIT Sloan). Its outputs do not constitute legal advice, and its licences are self-reported, categorized by best efforts (README; Nature; About page). The press has covered it, and Wikipedia has no article (home page; Wikipedia).
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Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Web Consent Explorer' documented · fieldF6 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'Open Model Evolution' documented · fieldF7 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): system card 'The AI Observatory' documented · fieldF8 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): metrics strip (constant br) documented · fieldF16 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, abstract page header documented · fieldF17 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF31 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶6 documented · fieldF41 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldF29 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, article header documented · fieldF24 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'two key actions', first documented · fieldF30 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶3 documented · fieldF18 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF15 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Training Data Provenance' documented · fieldF22 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF34 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, contributions, second documented · fieldF42 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, README ¶1 documented · fieldF25 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'two key actions', second documented · fieldF20 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF21 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF32 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶5 documented · fieldF33 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Introduction ¶5 documented · fieldF35 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, licence findings documented · fieldF19 arXiv — [2310.16787] The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI, Abstract documented · fieldF36 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, 'In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences' documented · fieldF37 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, licence-category comparison documented · fieldF14 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): findings strip documented · fieldF38 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, 'Language representation is heavily skewed …' documented · fieldF27 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, 'other issues', second documented · fieldF26 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, article body ¶2 documented · fieldF11 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, 'Consent in Crisis' documented · fieldF12 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, the multimodal audit documented · fieldF13 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): publications, the model economy and real-world use documented · fieldF28 MIT Sloan — Bringing transparency to the data used to train artificial intelligence, article body, closing ¶ before the quote documented · fieldF43 Data Provenance Initiative — Data-Provenance-Collection README, 'Legal Notice and Limitations' documented · fieldF39 Nature Machine Intelligence — A large-scale audit of dataset licensing and attribution in AI, Methods, 'Licence annotation process' documented · fieldF47 Data Provenance Initiative — About, /about: note documented · fieldF10 Data Provenance Initiative — Data Provenance Initiative (home), home (Cr): 'Policy and governance relevance'; 'Featured coverage' documented · fieldF44 Wikipedia — Data Provenance Initiative (no article), 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register entry data-provenance-initiative-aio-20261029 · file as first run
E_A, the archive's entity: the same initiative in the provenance census record and the archive's deposits: an audit collection and explorer that records provenance, its object a fine-tuning dataset traced through its collection to its sources, its carrier audit metadata and the Data Provenance Card, its count the first release's; the corpus (licensing) dimension of provenance beside the artifact and the semantic, bounded at the input of AI systems (it 'tells you whether the dataset was licensed'); a documentation project, not infrastructure, from which the archive took its provenance schema; and the training-pipeline end of the requirement that provenance survive the pipeline
E_F, the field's entity (type C — a conventional reading holds it (public entity: a research initiative, a volunteer collective of AI researchers, with its audit collection, explorer and card, now four public measurement systems)): the Data Provenance Initiative, a volunteer collective of AI researchers (its words) whose first release audited 44 fine-tuning collections and 1,800+ text datasets (arXiv:2310.16787, 25 October 2023; Nature Machine Intelligence, 30 August 2024), defining data provenance as a dataset's sourcing, creation and licensing heritage, released as the Data Provenance Collection, Explorer and Card, and which now runs four public measurement systems (datasets, web consent, open models, real-world use); its findings licence omission of 70%+ and error of 50%+ on hosting sites, a commercial divide and a Western skew; its outputs not legal advice
ρ = extends: the archive reads E_F as the entity and adds senses, mechanisms and limits on the field's own object: the census's formalization (its question, kind, capability, object, unit, carrier, negative tags); the licensing dimension of provenance among three independent dimensions, with its bound at the corpus and the input; the Initiative as a documentation project at L4 from which the archive adopted its provenance schema; and the requirement that provenance survive the training pipeline. Nothing in E_A denies a field claim; #725 states its relation to the frameworks it names as 'Extension and completion, not substitution or critique'. . Guard: ρ = extends claims an addition and no more: #725's bound ('audits whether datasets were licensed, not whether synthesized outputs preserve attribution') is a limit on the Initiative's scope, stated as not a critique of its adequacy in its own domain ('The packet's claim is not that the existing frameworks fail'); #1003's grouping of it with studies of attribution loss in outputs is composed beside #725's under P_coh, within the one ontology; the census's two statements of the explorer relation are composed together, neither ruled.
The case: equal terms, ontology included (v0.9). The archive's account extends the field's ontology. The field gives the Initiative as its own pages and papers give it (a volunteer collective, its audits, its tools, its findings, its limits) and the census formalizes that same entity, every field with a quote from a saved copy of the entity's own pages; #725 names its relation to the Initiative as extension, not substitution or critique, and supplies the dimension the Initiative was not designed for without contesting what it is. No ontology here is available only from the archive, so the law of the suppressed witness does not apply (§0.10): one claim space, nothing translated (§4.1, §4.3).
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| F9, F23, F40, F45 | F9 (B1, home (Cr): 'Public-interest infrastructure'): "DPI releases papers, datasets, and dashboards that help researchers, journalists, policymakers, and builders reason from shared evidence."; F23 (B3, article body ¶4): "A team of multidisciplinary researchers, including professor Sandy Pentland and others from MIT, created the Data Provenance Initiative to tackle the data transparency challenge head-on."; F40 (B5, README ¶1): "The Data Provenance Initiative is a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI."; F45 (B7, /about (xh): ¶1): "We are a volunteer collective of AI researchers conducting large-scale audits of the systems and resources that shape modern AI." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-02, PE-03, PE-04 | PE-02, PE-03, PE-04 |
| F1, F2, F3, F46 | F1 (B1, served HTML: meta description): "Public measurement infrastructure for AI data, model ecosystems, and real-world AI use."; F2 (B1, home (Cr): hero): "Public evidence for accountable AI … DPI maps the datasets, web policies, model markets, and real-world AI uses that shape how AI systems are built and governed."; F3 (B1, home (Cr): 'Flagship systems'): "Four public measurement systems … Together they trace AI from source data and web consent to model markets and real-world use."; F46 (B7, /about (xh): ¶1): "Our work began with training data provenance: tracing datasets from origin to creation, cataloging sources, licenses, creators, and documentation practices. It now also covers web consent, open model markets, concentration of power, and how people use AI systems in practice." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-10 | CAP-1-10 |
| F15, F18, F30 | F15 (B1, home (Cr): 'Training Data Provenance'): "Training Data Provenance … Dataset audits … Trace the sources, licenses, creators, languages, geographies, and derivation chains behind public AI training datasets."; F18 (B2, Abstract): "We develop tools and standards to trace the lineage of these datasets, from their source, creators, series of license conditions, properties, and subsequent use."; F30 (B4, Introduction ¶3): "In this work, we term the combination of these indicators, including a dataset’s sourcing, creation and licensing heritage, as well as its characteristics, the ‘data provenance’." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-05, PE-06, PE-07, PE-09, PE-22, O725-03, O725-05, O725-06, O725-15 | PE-05, PE-06, PE-07, PE-09, PE-22, O725-03, O725-05, O725-06, O725-15 |
| F16, F17, F29, F31, F41 | F16 (B2, abstract page header): "[Submitted on 25 Oct 2023 (v1), last revised 4 Nov 2023 (this version, v3)] … The Data Provenance Initiative: A Large Scale Audit of Dataset Licensing & Attribution in AI … by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors"; F17 (B2, Abstract): "we convene a multi-disciplinary effort between legal and machine learning experts to systematically audit and trace 1800+ text datasets."; F29 (B4, article header): "Published: 30 August 2024 … Nature Machine Intelligence … volume 6, pages 975–987 (2024)"; F31 (B4, Introduction ¶6): "As a first contribution of the initiative, we audit 44 instruction or ‘alignment’ finetuning data collections composed of 1,858 individual datasets"; F41 (B5, README ¶1): "Through a large scale audit of 44 data collections, spanning 1800+ finetuning text-to-text datasets, referred to as the Data Provenance Collection, this initiative's first release thoroughly documents their web and machine sources, licenses, creators, and other metadata." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-10, PE-15 | PE-10, PE-15 |
| F22, F25, F34, F42 | F22 (B2, Abstract): "we release our entire audit, with an interactive UI, the Data Provenance Explorer, which allows practitioners to trace and filter on data provenance for the most popular open source finetuning data collections"; F25 (B3, 'two key actions', second): "Practitioners can also use the tool to generate a human-readable data provenance card for datasets"; F34 (B4, contributions, second): "The Data Provenance Explorer (DPExplorer) (www.dataprovenance.org), an open-source repository for downloading, filtering and exploring data provenance and characteristics. Our tools auto-generate data provenance cards for scalable symbolic attribution and future documentation best practices."; F42 (B5, README ¶1): "Generating a subset of data from this repository will create a Data Provenance Card---symbolic attribution for all constituent datasets, that can be used as structured documentation." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-01, PE-08, PE-13, PE-18, PE-19 | PE-01, PE-08, PE-13, PE-18, PE-19 |
| F4, F5, F6, F7, F8 | F4 (B1, home (Cr): system card 'Data Provenance Explorer' (constant xr)): "Data Provenance Explorer … Training data … 4,000+ datasets … 608 languages across text, speech, and video … Inspect dataset sources, licenses, creators, geographies, modalities, and derivation chains."; F5 (B1, home (Cr): system card 'Web Consent Explorer'): "Web Consent Explorer … Web data … 14,000 domains … Terms, robots.txt, and crawl restrictions … Track how web consent signals are changing as AI developers compete for training data."; F6 (B1, home (Cr): system card 'Open Model Evolution'): "Open Model Evolution … Model ecosystem … 851k open models … 2.2B downloads and 200+ model attributes … Monitor concentration, participation, transparency, and technical shifts in open-weight AI."; F7 (B1, home (Cr): system card 'The AI Observatory'): "The AI Observatory … Real-world use … 23,158 conversations … 85,633 turns from 7 public sources … Compare how people use and misuse AI systems across sources, models, and contexts."; F8 (B1, home (Cr): metrics strip (constant br)): "4,000+ … datasets audited … 14,000 … web domains tracked … 851k … open models measured … 23,158 … AI conversations annotated" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside CAP-1-05, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07, CAP-1-11, PE-14, PE-20 | CAP-1-05, CAP-1-06, CAP-1-07, CAP-1-11, PE-14, PE-20 |
| F11, F12, F13, F28 | F11 (B1, home (Cr): publications, 'Consent in Crisis'): "Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons … An audit of terms, restrictions, and consent signals across the web. … NeurIPS 2024"; F12 (B1, home (Cr): publications, the multimodal audit): "Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech, and Video … An audit of four thousand public text, speech, and video datasets. … ICLR 2025"; F13 (B1, home (Cr): publications, the model economy and real-world use): "The AI Observatory: A Public Measure of Real-World AI Use … NeurIPS 2026 … Economies of Open Intelligence: Tracing Power and Participation in the Model Ecosystem … Preprint"; F28 (B3, article body, closing ¶ before the quote): "While the group’s efforts are currently focused on the data provenance of text, the plan is to expand to other media, such as video, as well as domain-specific data" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-20 | PE-20 |
| F20, F21, F24, F32, F33 | F20 (B2, Abstract): "We also observe frequent miscategorization of licenses on widely used dataset hosting sites, with license omission of 70%+ and error rates of 50%+."; F21 (B2, Abstract): "This points to a crisis in misattribution and informed use of the most popular datasets driving many recent breakthroughs."; F24 (B3, 'two key actions', first): "Conducted a systematic audit of more than 1,800 text datasets. The researchers traced the lineage of fine-tuning datasets from 44 of the most widely used text data collections. They found that licenses were frequently miscategorized, with error rates greater than 50% and license information omission rates of more than 70%."; F32 (B4, Introduction ¶5): "Notably, we find that more than 70% of licences for popular datasets on GitHub and Hugging Face are ‘unspecified’ … our rigorous re-annotation of licences finds that 66% of analysed Hugging Face licences were in a different use category, often labelled as more permissive than the author’s original licence."; F33 (B4, Introduction ¶5): "Our work highlights a crisis in licence laundering and informed usage of popular datasets" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-11, PE-12, PE-21, D725-16, D1714-01, CAP-1-01, CAP-1-02 | PE-11, PE-12, PE-21, D725-16, D1714-01, CAP-1-01, CAP-1-02 |
| F35 | F35 (B4, licence findings): "In total, 85% of dataset licences request attribution, and 30% include a share-alike clause" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside D725-02 | D725-02 |
| F14, F19, F36, F37 | F14 (B1, home (Cr): findings strip): "Data transparency … Open weights now outpace truly open-source models … Dataset restrictions … Source content often carries stricter terms than dataset releases … Real-use heterogeneity … No single public conversation source generalizes across AI use"; F19 (B2, Abstract): "Our landscape analysis highlights the sharp divides in composition and focus of commercially open vs closed datasets, with closed datasets monopolizing important categories: lower resource languages, more creative tasks, richer topic variety, newer and more synthetic training data."; F36 (B4, 'In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences'): "In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences … in 2023, when many of the most popular and diverse datasets were published, the NC/A-O rate is 61%."; F37 (B4, licence-category comparison): "Table 3 also shows a full 45% of NC/A-O datasets are synthetic, compared to <14% in more permissive licence categories." | — | untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim stands in this lineage) | |
| F27, F38 | F27 (B3, 'other issues', second): "Language used in the datasets is heavily skewed toward English and Western European languages, with sparse coverage of languages from Asian, African, and South American nations, if at all."; F38 (B4, 'Language representation is heavily skewed …'): "we find a stark Western-centric skew in representation." | — | untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim stands in this lineage) | |
| F26 | F26 (B3, article body ¶2): "Without transparency into the lineage of data used for artificial intelligence models, researchers, businesses, and other intended users may find themselves out of compliance with emerging regulations like the European Union’s AI Act or exposed to legal and copyright risks." | — | untranslated: composed as received (no archive claim stands in this lineage) | |
| F39, F43, F47 | F39 (B4, Methods, 'Licence annotation process'): "Note that this protocol reflects best efforts to verify self-reported licences and does not constitute legal advice."; F43 (B5, 'Legal Notice and Limitations'): "The information provided on this page and any output of the Data Provenance Initiative does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice; instead, all information, content, and materials are for general informational purposes only."; F47 (B7, /about: note): "We collect self-reported licenses from the papers and repositories that released these datasets and categorize them according to our best efforts as a volunteer research and transparency initiative. Information provided by our work and outputs of the Data Provenance Initiative does not constitute legal advice" | — | untranslated: composed as received beside PE-16, PE-17, CAP-1-08 | PE-16, PE-17, CAP-1-08 |
| F10, F44 | F10 (B1, home (Cr): 'Policy and governance relevance'; 'Featured coverage'): "Our work has been cited in public AI safety and governance reporting and used to ground debates about data transparency, consent, and market concentration. … DPI findings have been covered by the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and VentureBeat."; F44 (B6, Wikipedia: title Data_Provenance_Initiative): "raw wikitext (action=raw, redirect=no): HTTP 404 … Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. … There were no results matching the query." | — | untranslated: composed as received beside D725-14, CAP-1-03, CAP-1-04, CAP-1-09, CAP-1-12, CAP-1-13 | D725-14, CAP-1-03, CAP-1-04, CAP-1-09, CAP-1-12, CAP-1-13 |
v0.9 §4.10: KO_B sentences surviving in the KO at similarity ≥ 0.95, with positions (computed as apply_v09.py does: difflib.SequenceMatcher ratio, the best KO sentence for each KO_B sentence): v0.9 0 of 13 (positions [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None]; composed first under v0.9, so there is no v0.7 object to measure against). Opening-run check (§5.10): no breach.
The Data Provenance Initiative describes itself as "a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI" (README) and as "a volunteer collective of AI researchers conducting large-scale audits of the systems and resources that shape modern AI" (About page). MIT Sloan says researchers "including professor Sandy Pentland and others from MIT" created it (MIT Sloan, 2025), and it releases "papers, datasets, and dashboards" for reasoning "from shared evidence" (home page). Its work began with training data provenance and now also covers web consent, open model markets, concentration of power and real-world use; the home page calls it "Public measurement infrastructure for AI data, model ecosystems, and real-world AI use," with four public measurement systems (About page; home page). The systems are the Data Provenance Explorer (4,000+ datasets, 608 languages), the Web Consent Explorer (14,000 domains), Open Model Evolution (851k open models) and The AI Observatory (23,158 conversations) (home page). The founding audit, by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors (arXiv:2310.16787, 25 October 2023; Nature Machine Intelligence, 30 August 2024), traced 1800+ text datasets, 1,858 in 44 collections, the Data Provenance Collection of its first release (arXiv; Nature; README; MIT Sloan). Its authors define data provenance as a dataset's "sourcing, creation and licensing heritage, as well as its characteristics" (Nature), traced from source and creators through licence conditions to subsequent use (arXiv; home page). It released the audit with an interactive UI, the Data Provenance Explorer, and a Data Provenance Card, "symbolic attribution for all constituent datasets" (arXiv; Nature; README; MIT Sloan). The audit found licence omission of 70%+ and error rates of 50%+ on hosting sites, a "crisis in misattribution" (arXiv), with over 70% of GitHub and Hugging Face licences unspecified and 66% of Hugging Face licences in another use category, "licence laundering" (Nature). 85% of licences request attribution and 30% share-alike; closed datasets hold lower-resource languages and creative tasks; in 2023 non-commercial licences spiked to 61%, and 45% of such datasets are synthetic (Nature; arXiv; home page). Representation skews Western, and untraced data risks regulatory non-compliance and copyright exposure (Nature; MIT Sloan). Later audits followed: Consent in Crisis (NeurIPS 2024) and four thousand text, speech and video datasets (ICLR 2025), with work on open models and real-world use (home page; MIT Sloan). Its outputs do not constitute legal advice, and its licences are self-reported, categorized by best efforts (README; Nature; About page). The press has covered it, and Wikipedia has no article (home page; Wikipedia).
The Data Provenance Initiative is, in its repository's words, "a multi-disciplinary volunteer effort to improve transparency, documentation, and responsible use of training datasets for AI," and on its About page "a volunteer collective of AI researchers conducting large-scale audits of the systems and resources that shape modern AI" (README; dataprovenance.org/about); the provenance census record gives its operator as the Initiative itself, a "volunteer effort" with a "paper by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors," kinds it an "audit collection and explorer" and sets it in the lineage of "training data" (provenance census record). MIT Sloan's account has "a team of multidisciplinary researchers, including professor Sandy Pentland and others from MIT," create the Initiative "to tackle the data transparency challenge head-on" (MIT Sloan, 3 March 2025), and the home page says that "DPI releases papers, datasets, and dashboards that help researchers, journalists, policymakers, and builders reason from shared evidence" (dataprovenance.org). Its work, the About page says, "began with training data provenance: tracing datasets from origin to creation, cataloging sources, licenses, creators, and documentation practices" and "now also covers web consent, open model markets, concentration of power, and how people use AI systems in practice" (dataprovenance.org/about); the home page calls it "Public measurement infrastructure for AI data, model ecosystems, and real-world AI use," which "maps the datasets, web policies, model markets, and real-world AI uses that shape how AI systems are built and governed" through "Four public measurement systems" (dataprovenance.org). The founding audit's authors name its object: "we term the combination of these indicators, including a dataset's sourcing, creation and licensing heritage, as well as its characteristics, the 'data provenance'" (Nature Machine Intelligence, 30 August 2024), traced "from their source, creators, series of license conditions, properties, and subsequent use" (arXiv:2310.16787), and the home page's "Training Data Provenance" traces "the sources, licenses, creators, languages, geographies, and derivation chains behind public AI training datasets" (dataprovenance.org). The provenance census asks of each entity it formalizes "What provenance does this system carry, through which operation, on whose assertion, with what evidence of survival?" and answers for the Initiative that it records, of the three capabilities express, record and test: its object "a fine-tuning dataset, traced through its collection to its sources," its unit "a dataset within a collection," its relations derivation, creators, licences and subsequent use, the last field restating the paper's lineage (provenance census record). #725 sets that object in the second dimension of provenance, "training-corpus licensing," which "has academic instrumentation and emerging legal architecture," its object "The corpus" and its question "Under what permissions did this data enter this system?", with the Initiative among its frameworks and among provenance's disciplinary homes as "dataset documentation (DPI, model cards, dataset cards)," and states that the dimensions of artifact, licensing and meaning are independent: "a licensed dataset can produce outputs with excellent semantic provenance if the synthesis preserves attribution" (#725). The founding paper was submitted on 25 October 2023 and revised on 4 November 2023, "by Shayne Longpre and 16 other authors" (arXiv:2310.16787), and published in Nature Machine Intelligence, volume 6, on 30 August 2024 (Nature Machine Intelligence); the census dates the entity from the preprint, "2023 (arXiv:2310.16787, v1 25 October 2023)" (provenance census record). It convened "a multi-disciplinary effort between legal and machine learning experts to systematically audit and trace 1800+ text datasets" (arXiv), in the journal "44 instruction or 'alignment' finetuning data collections composed of 1,858 individual datasets" (Nature Machine Intelligence), the release the repository calls the Data Provenance Collection and "this initiative's first release" (README), and the count the census carries, "44 data collections, 1800+ fine-tuning text-to-text datasets (first release)," as of the README (provenance census record); MIT Sloan gives "more than 1,800 text datasets" from "44 of the most widely used text data collections" (MIT Sloan). With the audit came "an interactive UI, the Data Provenance Explorer, which allows practitioners to trace and filter on data provenance for the most popular open source finetuning data collections" (arXiv), in the journal "an open-source repository for downloading, filtering and exploring data provenance and characteristics" whose tools "auto-generate data provenance cards for scalable symbolic attribution" (Nature Machine Intelligence); the repository's Data Provenance Card is "symbolic attribution for all constituent datasets, that can be used as structured documentation" (README), "human-readable" in MIT Sloan's account (MIT Sloan), and the census carries it as the entity's provenance carrier beside "audit metadata per dataset" (provenance census record). The census gives Data Provenance Explorer, Data Provenance Collection and Data Provenance Card as other names of the entity and states its relation to them twice: among its negative tags, "initiative, explorer and collection are distinct records," and on its sibling relation to the MMRS meta-aggregator's record of the explorer, "the same entity, read for reception there and for provenance carriage here"; it records the Explorer as "a JavaScript application, unreadable to a plain fetch" (provenance census record). The home page's four systems are the Data Provenance Explorer ("4,000+ datasets," "608 languages across text, speech, and video," inspecting "dataset sources, licenses, creators, geographies, modalities, and derivation chains"), the Web Consent Explorer ("14,000 domains," "Terms, robots.txt, and crawl restrictions"), Open Model Evolution ("851k open models," "2.2B downloads") and The AI Observatory ("23,158 conversations," "85,633 turns from 7 public sources") (dataprovenance.org). Its metrics read "4,000+" "datasets audited," "14,000" "web domains tracked," "851k" "open models measured" and "23,158" "AI conversations annotated," and its publications carry the later work: Consent in Crisis (NeurIPS 2024), the multimodal audit, "An audit of four thousand public text, speech, and video datasets" (ICLR 2025), Economies of Open Intelligence (preprint) and The AI Observatory (NeurIPS 2026) (dataprovenance.org); in March 2025 MIT Sloan still had the work "currently focused on the data provenance of text," with a plan "to expand to other media, such as video" (MIT Sloan). The census carries the entity as "active" and lists "the Explorer itself (JavaScript)" and "the multimodal extension (arXiv:2412.17847)" among what it has not yet checked (provenance census record); the Capture Registry finds that "The record has one explorer and the first release's count," that the home-page card gives "four platforms and '4,000+ audited datasets; 14,000 tracked web domains'," that the composition is "ahead of the record on the entity's current extent," and that "The census is to re-read dataprovenance.org and carry the platforms and the current count with their quotes," the capture being "a correction to be made from the entity's own page" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). The founding audit observed "frequent miscategorization of licenses on widely used dataset hosting sites, with license omission of 70%+ and error rates of 50%+," which "points to a crisis in misattribution and informed use of the most popular datasets driving many recent breakthroughs" (arXiv), the result the census records as what survived the operation it tested, "dataset repackaging and hosting (licence carried or lost on hosting sites)" (provenance census record). The journal gives the measure by platform, "more than 70% of licences for popular datasets on GitHub and Hugging Face are 'unspecified'" and "66% of analysed Hugging Face licences were in a different use category, often labelled as more permissive than the author's original licence," and names "a crisis in licence laundering" (Nature Machine Intelligence); MIT Sloan restates error rates "greater than 50%" and omission rates "of more than 70%" (MIT Sloan). The Capture Registry checked these figures "against the provenance census record of the same day and the entity pages it saved" and calls the 70%/50% wording "the record's quote from the repository README" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29), where the census gives it as what "the founding paper reports" (provenance census record). "In total, 85% of dataset licences request attribution, and 30% include a share-alike clause" (Nature Machine Intelligence); #725 carries these figures with the omission and error rates and reads them as the licensing dimension's ground, "The DPI's documentation of 70%+ license-omission rates establishes the licensing dimension's urgency" (#725), and #1714 reads the finding as "how much is lost before training even begins" (#1714). Of the commercial divide the preprint finds "closed datasets monopolizing important categories: lower resource languages, more creative tasks, richer topic variety, newer and more synthetic training data" (arXiv); the journal records that "In 2023 there was a spike in NC/A-O dataset licences," "the NC/A-O rate is 61%" that year, and that "a full 45% of NC/A-O datasets are synthetic, compared to <14% in more permissive licence categories" (Nature Machine Intelligence); the home page's findings are "Source content often carries stricter terms than dataset releases," "Open weights now outpace truly open-source models" and "No single public conversation source generalizes across AI use" (dataprovenance.org). The journal finds "a stark Western-centric skew in representation" (Nature Machine Intelligence), MIT Sloan language "heavily skewed toward English and Western European languages," and MIT Sloan states the stake: without lineage, users "may find themselves out of compliance with emerging regulations like the European Union's AI Act or exposed to legal and copyright risks" (MIT Sloan). Its stated limits: "any output of the Data Provenance Initiative does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice" (README); the licence protocol "reflects best efforts to verify self-reported licences and does not constitute legal advice" (Nature Machine Intelligence); "We collect self-reported licenses from the papers and repositories that released these datasets and categorize them according to our best efforts" (dataprovenance.org/about); the census tags it "NOT legal advice (its own notice)" and adds that "describing a collection does not establish which model used it" (provenance census record), and the Capture Registry finds both tags "not composed" at the name (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29). #725 states the bound in its canonical claim, that existing frameworks "address the artifact (C2PA / Content Credentials) and the corpus (Data Provenance Initiative, EU AI Act transparency provisions, W3C PROV)" and "are not designed to address the survival of authorial lineage through AI synthesis": the Initiative "audits whether datasets were licensed, not whether synthesized outputs preserve attribution to the human sources whose labor the synthesis depended upon," stands at "Layer 2 (licensing)," "Necessary but operates on corpus, not synthesis output," and licensing provenance "operates at corpus-ingestion stage" (#725). "Licensing audits operate on the input to AI systems. They do not address the output" (#725, emphasis dropped): "The Data Provenance Initiative tells you whether the dataset was licensed," and none of the instruments "was designed to tell you what happened to the meaning between the camera and the screen, between the dataset and the answer"; the path from the Initiative runs through "dataset licensing" to "what about what the model produces from the licensed data?" and so to semantic provenance, which extends provenance "to the lifecycle of the meaning the content carries," with the Initiative as "layer 2 of" provenance after AI (#725). #1003 groups the Initiative with C2PA and W3C PROV as "Provenance and attribution studies" that "have focused on attribution loss in AI outputs" (#1003), a reading composed beside #725's bound at the input. #98 tables the Initiative (MIT) as documenting "provenance of popular AI training datasets," a "Documentation project, not infrastructure," and Consent in Crisis as a "Diagnostic paper," in the pattern "They diagnose the crisis or build narrow fixes"; it sets the Initiative at "L4: Provenance / Consent," where what is missing is "Integrated provenance in training pipeline," and records the archive's own provenance schema as taken from it, "Implemented (in CHA)" (#98). #1714 draws the requirement, "Provenance has to survive the training pipeline," and "Sources can be recorded at ingestion, the record kept with the training set," with the Initiative's literature bearing "on whether slushing is a fixed property of pipelines" (#1714); #95 names "training-data provenance records" among the companion infrastructure for parametric claims, which PER reaches "only indirectly" (#95), and #623 calls standardized documentation of training-data provenance "a step toward the accounting the framework demands" (#623). The home page lists coverage by "the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, MIT Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, and VentureBeat" and citation in "public AI safety and governance reporting" (dataprovenance.org); Wikipedia has no article on it (Wikipedia, 2026-10-29); #725 predicted that broad queries "will be dominated by C2PA/CAI publications, DPI papers, and major media for the foreseeable future" (#725). At the bare name on Google's AI Overview the Capture Registry reads the composition first as identifying "the project," listing "its tools" and reporting "what its audits found, from its own site, its paper and the press," then finds that its "'multi-institutional research project—led in part by researchers from MIT'" "follows the MIT Sloan card," that "the composition names no one" ("MIT named; no person; no identifier"), and that "no card cites" the census record, which "landed on provenanceerasure.org the same day" (Capture Registry, 2026-10-29).
T against L_F(B) (AIO's ontology at work on its own cards): At 'Data Provenance Initiative' (T1, four cards: B1–B4; 190 words) the composition gives the Initiative by its home page, its paper, MIT Sloan and the journal paper. Composed from its cards: the four systems (B1 F3–F7: the Data Provenance Explorer, the Web Consent Explorer, Open Model Evolution, the AI Observatory), at coarser grain (F5's 14,000 domains as 'thousands'; F6's and F7's counts dropped); the founding audit's licence finding at the source's grain (B2 F20 'license omission of 70%+ and error rates of 50%+', restated by B3 F24); the commercial divide (B2 F19, 'more creative tasks' and 'lower resource languages' kept, 'richer topic variety' as 'specialized topics'); the Explorer's 'interactive' and its lineage fields (B2 F22, F18). Substituted reading, the operator: the cards give the Initiative's own home page and paper, whose self-description the composition does not take (B1 F1–F2, 'Public measurement infrastructure', 'maps the datasets, web policies, model markets'), and the own pages not surfaced call it a 'volunteer effort' and a 'volunteer collective' (B5 F40, B7 F45); T composes 'a multi-institutional research project—led in part by researchers from MIT' from MIT Sloan's 'researchers, including professor Sandy Pentland and others from MIT' (B3 F23), as the Capture Registry finds (CAP-1-03); 'multi-institutional' is in no card's text (the field has 'multidisciplinary', F23, and 'multi-disciplinary', F17). Substituted count: the Explorer is given at the founding audit's scale, 'over 1,800+ text and fine-tuning datasets across dozens of collections' (B2 F17; B4 F31's 44 collections at the coarser 'dozens'), where card 1 gives the Explorer '4,000+ datasets' in '608 languages across text, speech, and video' (B1 F4, F8): the first release stands for the present explorer. Substituted reading, the tool: T has the Explorer 'audit' datasets; in the field the experts audit (F17) and the audit is released 'with an interactive UI, the Data Provenance Explorer' (F22). Force raised: T1-8 composes a cause, 'frequently driven by synthetic data generated via commercial APIs', where the journal reports the 2023 spike (B4 F36) and the synthetic share of non-commercial datasets (F37) side by side; limit dropped: the year (2023) and the rate (61%). Available, not composed: the term data provenance (B4 F30), attribution and share-alike requested (F35), the per-platform measure and 'licence laundering' (F32, F33), the Western skew (F38, F27), the stake (F26), the later audits by name (B1 F11, F12, F13), the home page's own findings (F14), the metrics strip (F8), the authors and dates (F16, F29; CAP-1-04), the Card (F25, F34), the coverage (F10). Limit dropped: B4 F39 ('best efforts … does not constitute legal advice'), on a card; the own pages' F43 and F47 were not surfaced; the Capture Registry records the census's negative tags as 'not composed' and not contradicted (CAP-1-08). Composed without attribution: no person named, MIT named (CAP-1-13), at the coarse grain of an institutional description: recorded; the findings at the source's grain carry card markers and no name: recorded, the marker the attribution the layer gives. Content replaced by use: the closer (T1-9).
L_F(B) against L_A(B ∪ A) (the intervention): Admission adds, in one claim space with the field's: the provenance census's formalization of the entity (PE-01–PE-22), its organizing question, its kind ('audit collection and explorer'), capability ('records'), object, unit and carrier, its count at the first release with its own unchecked items, its negative tags ('NOT legal advice', 'describing a collection does not establish which model used it', 'initiative, explorer and collection are distinct records') held beside its sibling relation 'the same entity' (PE-18, PE-19, P_coh within the record); the Initiative's place in the licensing dimension of provenance, beside artifact and meaning, the dimensions independent (O725-03, O725-05, O725-15, O725-06); its bound at the corpus and the input (D725-01, D725-04, D725-08–D725-10, O725-11) and the path from it to semantic provenance (R725-12, R725-13, O725-07), held beside #1003's grouping of it with studies of 'attribution loss in AI outputs' (D1003-01); 'Documentation project, not infrastructure', L4, and the archive's own adoption of its provenance schema (D98-01, D98-02, D98-05, O98-03, R98-04); the requirement that provenance survive the training pipeline (D1714-01–04, O95-01, O623-01); #725's prediction that broad queries would compose from DPI papers (D725-14); and the Capture Registry's account of the composition at the name (CAP-1-01–13), including that the composition is ahead of the record on the entity's extent (CAP-1-10) and its ascription of the 70%/50% quote to the README, marked contradicts_primary (CAP-1-01). Not surfaced: every archive source; no card cites the census record or a deposit (CAP-1-12).
alignment: {'T1_cards_claims': ['F1', 'F2', 'F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F8', 'F9', 'F10', 'F11', 'F12', 'F13', 'F14', 'F15', 'F16', 'F17', 'F18', 'F19', 'F20', 'F21', 'F22', 'F23', 'F24', 'F25', 'F26', 'F27', 'F28', 'F29', 'F30', 'F31', 'F32', 'F33', 'F34', 'F35', 'F36', 'F37', 'F38', 'F39'], 'T1_composed': ['F3', 'F4', 'F5', 'F6', 'F7', 'F17', 'F18', 'F19', 'F20', 'F22', 'F23', 'F24', 'F31', 'F36', 'F37'], 'T1_outside_cards': ["'multi-institutional' (T1-1): in no field source's text", "'frequently driven by' (T1-8): a causal relation no field source states"], 'rule': "a field claim counts as composed when T states it at its source's grain or coarser; the typology of what is not is in T_vs_LB (§6.2)"}
D725-04 T composes the Initiative's audits and gives no boundD725-04D725-10 T gives no dimension of provenanceD725-10O725-05 absent from TO725-05D725-08 absent from TD725-08D1003-01 absent from TD1003-01D98-01 T: 'a multi-institutional research project'D98-01R98-04 absent from TR98-04D1714-02 absent from TD1714-02PE-04 absent from TPE-04PE-06 T: 'sources, lineages, and license types' (coarse)PE-06PE-17 absent from TPE-17PE-18 T composes the explorer as one of the Initiative's toolsPE-18CAP-1-03 T: 'led in part by researchers from MIT'CAP-1-03CAP-1-07 T: the first release's 1,800+ for the ExplorerCAP-1-07D725-14 an observation at broad provenance queries, not at this addressD725-14Candidates are found by string; admission is by reading.
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