CATALOGUE / LBS-001 / REV.07 STATUS: ACTIVE UPDATED 2026-07-14

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A public catalogue of data sources whose contents predate, or deliberately exclude, the explosion of machine-generated text, images and audio that began in late 2022. Maintained by hand. Submissions welcome.

Specimens 10 of 10
Earliest 2023-03-10
Latest 2026-06-21
Queue 1 pending
  1. 010

    YouCook2

    youcook2.eecs.umich.edu

    Cooking videos made and edited by humans with human annotations. It seems to be from 2017-2018

    REF LBS-010 youcook2.eecs.umich.edu
  2. 009

    Common Crawl August 2022

    data.commoncrawl.org

    Crawl of the web in August 2022

    REF LBS-009 data.commoncrawl.org
  3. 008

    Chronicling America Newspapers 1730-1969

    chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

    US Library of Congress archive of newspapers between 1730 and 1969.

    REF LBS-008 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
  4. 007

    shipvideos.net

    shipvideos.net

    An independent, private, encyclopedic archive of videos of ships.

    REF LBS-007 shipvideos.net
  5. 006

    English Wikipedia dump, 20 August 2022

    dumps.wikimedia.your.org

    A complete dump of the English Wikipedia from August 2022, predating the widespread injection of AI-generated text into the encyclopedia.

    REF LBS-006 dumps.wikimedia.your.org
  6. 005

    wordfreq

    github.com

    A database of word frequencies in 40+ natural languages. The project is no longer being updated because of AI contamination of its sources, and so remains a frozen resource for human-generated word frequencies.

    REF LBS-005 github.com
  7. 004

    Internet Archive image library

    archive.org

    Digital images uploaded by Archive users, ranging from maps to astronomical imagery to photographs of artwork. Many are available for free download.

    REF LBS-004 archive.org
  8. 003

    Library of Congress photo archive

    loc.gov

    The Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) contains catalog records and digital images representing a rich cross-section of still pictures held by the Prints & Photographs Division of the Library of Congress.

    REF LBS-003 loc.gov
  9. 002

    Project Gutenberg

    gutenberg.org

    A library of free eBooks, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitised and proofread the eBooks.

    REF LBS-002 gutenberg.org
  10. 001

    Arctic Code Vault

    archiveprogram.github.com

    GitHub captured a snapshot of every active public repository on 02/02/2020 and preserved that data in a decommissioned coal mine in the Svalbard archipelago, closer to the North Pole than the Arctic Circle.

    REF LBS-001 archiveprogram.github.com