AI Watchdog: InternVid

Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how YouTube videos are taken to train AI tools. This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.

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InternVid is a collection of 5,428,743 videos split into 234 million clips paired with automatically generated text captions. It was compiled by OpenGVLab, a research group at Shanghai AI Laboratory, and released in 2023. The videos’ content spans daily life, sports, entertainment, education, and more. The data set is hosted on Hugging Face, an AI-development hub, where it has been downloaded more than 3,200 times. It has been used by Stability AI and ByteDance for experimentation.