AI's got its eyes on us

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Who has access to the data collected about us and our communities determines who gets to write our narratives. How can people reclaim power over their own maps and stories using AI? Frequency of dataset usage by country [purple circle] Usage of datasets from here [Grey Circle] No usage of datasets from here [This map shows how often 1,933 datasets were used (43,140 times) for performance benchmarking across 26,535 different research papers from 2015 to 2020.]( This map shows how often 1,933 datasets were used (43,140 times) for performance benchmarking across 26,535 different research papers from 2015 to 2020. [Reduced, Reused and Recycled: The Life of a Dataset in Machine Learning Research](, Bernard Koch, Emily Denton, Alex Hanna, Jacob G. Foster, 2021. Map made with [Natural Earth](. Distorted with [cartogram3](. 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