Should Researchers Be Allowed to Use YouTube Videos and Tweets?

guest · Jun 3, 2019

Should Researchers Be Allowed to Use YouTube Videos and Tweets?
June 3, 2019
https://slate.com/technology/2019/0...an-subjects-research-social-media-mining.html

[...] the researchers trained their model using a dataset [...] The model was fed face and voice data from hundreds of thousands of YouTube examples.
He said a friend sent him the paper and was “quite surprised and confused” to see his face among the “successful” renderings.

Part of his confusion was that he hadn’t signed any waivers to be a part of a machine learning study, but he had signed waivers for appearance on YouTube videos, so he figured maybe one of those videos found its way into the dataset the researchers used. However, after some digging, he discovered the video used in the dataset and didn’t recall signing any kind of waiver for that one.

Whether Sullivan signed a waiver likely doesn’t matter, though. Most research using data from human participants does require scientists to obtain informed consent (most often in the form of waivers).
But YouTube videos are considered publicly available information and not classified as “human subjects research”
[...] but it’s worth asking questions about how and why researchers use social media posts, and whether those uses could be harmful.
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