Human–AI Conflict Discourse: YouTube Comments on AI-Generated Content

This dataset contains 221,765 English-language YouTube comments from 695 videos about AI art, ChatGPT, generative AI, AI-generated content, and deepfakes. Comments were collected between January 2022 and June 2026. The dataset supports research on public reactions to AI, including ethical concerns, copyright, creative labour, authenticity, misinformation, and AI tools.