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 '<i>AI vs Artists – The Biggest Art Heist in History</i>’ (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 <i>Communalytic</i>, 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 <i>*tool*</i> (n=300) and <i>*train*</i> (n=304) identified through <i>Voyant</i> (Sinclair and Rockwell, 2016).<b>References</b>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).