HAI Seminar with Common Crawl

Preserving Humanity's Knowledge and Making it Accessible | Addressing Challenges of Public Web Data

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The Common Crawl Foundation is dedicated to preserving humanity's knowledge and making it accessible through its free public web dataset, a vital resource since 2008. As AI development accelerates, concerns have emerged regarding the accessibility and transparency of public web data, impacting open datasets in three key ways: robots.txt exclusions, legal demands, and "bot defenses." Two of these are not visible in public and are not very well understood. We will present insights from a new data product that utilizes Common Crawl's crawl metadata to visually explore these three problems, advocating for greater transparency and informed solutions for the future of public web data.

Details:

Time: 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm PT

Location: Gates Computer Science Building, Room 119, 353 Jane Stanford Way, CA 94503.

Host or Publisher Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)