YouTube comments dataset for threaded network and thematic analyses of visual generative AI perceptions among professionals and novices to visual production

This dataset contains a structured dataset of 3,983 YouTube comments to the video 'AI vs Artists – The Biggest Art Heist in History’ (https://youtu.be/ZJ59g4PV1AE), posted on 1 March 2024.

The comments were exchanged between 1 March and 10 May 2024 and collected in May 2024. The dataset was used to perform sentiment analysis and toxicity analyses using Communalytic, a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse (Gruzd and Mai, 2024).

Threaded network analysis was conducted in Gephi on a subset of comments containing the word roots *tool* (n=300) and *train* (n=304) identified through Voyant (Sinclair and Rockwell, 2016).

References

• Gruzd A and Mai P (2024) Communalytic: a computational social science research tool for studying online communities and discourse. Available at: https://communalytic.org (accessed 11 May 2024).
• Sinclair S and Rockwell G (2024) Voyant tools. Available at: https://voyant-tools.org/ (accessed 23 May 2024).