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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern UK technology editor

Fresh concerns raised over sources of training material for AI systems

Google AI logo is displayed on a smartphone with a ChatGPT logo in the background.
A dataset called C4 is used to train Google’s LaMDA AI and Meta’s GPT competitor, LLaMA. Photograph: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

Fresh fears have been raised about the training material used for some of the largest and most powerful artificial intelligence models, after several investigations exposed the fascist, pirated and malicious sources from which the data is harvested.

One such dataset is the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus, or C4, assembled by Google from more than 15m websites and used to train both the search engine’s LaMDA AI as well as Meta’s GPT competitor, LLaMA.

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