TREE NEWS update: A developer has posted metadata for roughly 5.6 billion public TikTok videos to Hugging Face, free to download. The data was scraped through TikTok’s private API, a method the platform’s terms of service prohibit. The dataset also functions as a storefront, the developer said.
Developer Publishes Metadata for 5.6 Billion TikTok Videos on Hugging Face
AI take
This dataset's scale makes it a meaningful test of how AI training data is sourced and governed: the metadata was obtained via a private API in breach of platform terms, yet it sits openly on a major model hub. That puts Hugging Face and TikTok in the position of deciding whether hosting or scraping is the enforceable line. The detail that the dataset doubles as a storefront suggests the real tension is commercial reuse of platform-derived data, not research access. Whether either platform acts, and whether the file stays up, is the open question.
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