# What are the biggest challenges you face when sourcing high-quality, domain-specific datasets for training and evaluating AI models?

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> Published: 2026-08-10 08:29:05+00:00

I’d be particularly interested in experiences with multimodal data (text, audio, image, video), multilingual datasets, and human-annotated data—and what criteria you use to determine whether a dataset is reliable enough for production AI.