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One-time License Fee
Academic Speech Dataset: $15,595
Academic Papers Dataset: $12,595
Combined Academic Speech & Papers Datasets: $25,000
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Speech Dataset: 85 hours of high-quality audio recordings in mp3 format
Papers Dataset: 829 student papers in txt format
However, this new marketplace introduces an interesting line of questioning. Can undergraudates/graduate students generate enough novel training data to cover their tuition? Will the 21st century scholar most valuable output be high quality material for LLMs to digest.
I'd love to see a metric for determining how valuable a document is to an LLM. How accurate is the data, how much new knowledge does it add, how relevant is it to users of the LLM. If we can value a document accurately we can create a marketplace for individuals to license their creative output.
Isn't that off by a factor of ~10? $800 x 4 classes/semester x 2 semesters = $6,400/year. I don't know how much U. of Michigan charges, but I expect it's closer to $64K than $6.4K.
This data dump is loading research papers, which is going to primarily come from Graduate/Doctoral students
Edit: sibling comment is more accurate and provided a link. Ignore these numbers, but note they are close.
Whether the students at University of Michigan are allowed to opt out of their own data sales, or:
Request a percent license of the profits from the University selling their work afterward?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we owned the work we created instead of always having it assigned to the network nearest extractive company or institution?
Big money understands. Just look at how agritech data is getting locked up by companies — the value of the data is astounding.
Much of the university stuff is free for research or non-profit use, which is great, but if you want to use it commercially you have to pay big bucks. And not everyone who uses it commercially pays, let’s be honest. Ethical behavior isn’t the persuit of everyone in the management class.
I've often used university research commercially. I just read a published paper and apply it to my business. No permission, no payment, it's just wide open free for anyone.