# AI Dataset Lifecycle & Takedown Risk Gauge

> AI Dataset Lifecycle & Takedown Risk Gauge is a paid API for AI agents from aeml-x402.zeabur.app, paid per call via x402, $0.25/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a multi-leg due-diligence snapshot for a named AI training dataset covering its lifecycle status, legal/ethical takedown pressure, and downstream model lineage exposure, with cross-validated narrative and verifiable citations.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://aeml-x402.zeabur.app/gauge/aidataset-region
- Price: $0.25/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/ai-dataset-lifecycle-takedown-risk-gauge-09bde014
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jb-WuUXkK7H_DgIUaO71U

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability ai-dataset-lifecycle-takedown-risk-gauge-09bde014
```

Example prompt: Can you pull the full takedown risk snapshot for the LAION-5B dataset — I need to know its current lifecycle status, any active DMCA or litigation pressure, and which models or tools downstream are exposed if it gets deleted?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a single-call, verifiable, multi-leg due-diligence snapshot on a specific AI training dataset's risk profile — covering lifecycle, legal pressure, and model lineage — rather than manually querying HuggingFace, Lumen, or Wayback Machine separately. Especially useful for AI compliance teams, model builders, and legal counsel who need offline-verifiable citations and provenance traces, not just raw source links.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or misspelled entity key returns empty or degraded legs
- Dataset with no public takedown record may show sparse legal pressure leg
- Very recently deleted datasets may lag behind Wayback/Lumen indexing
- Provenance freshness may be stale if upstream sources have not updated
- Ed25519 signature verification may fail if key_id or issuer_DID has rotated
- Payment failure (x402) returns 402 before any data is served

## How this service works

[3-LEG] AI dataset takedown chain, one dataset (?entity=laion-5b): leading access pressure from gating and legal notices -> current current availability -> realized lifecycle to gated, withdrawn or deleted (confirmation gate). A sequential chain, not one reading - confidence = how many legs are lit, in order. Sources: host registries and official notices. Descriptive only, never a forecast or advice. No data -> 422 no_charge, not billed.

## Output

A structured JSON object with named legs for dataset lifecycle status, legal/ethical takedown pressure signals, and downstream model lineage exposure. Includes a cross-line narrative, provenance metadata with freshness indicators, decision points for rerunning with alternate dataset tags, verifiable Ed25519-signed citations traceable to HuggingFace, Lumen, and Wayback Machine, and honest scope/grade disclosures. Deleted data is confirmed un-reconstructable.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "type": "string",
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ]
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "additionalProperties": false,
     "properties": {
      "entity": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "required - monitored object id, paired with signal_id; free list at GET /gauge/catalog?signal_id=<signal_id> -> signals[0].entities[]",
       "examples": [
        "laion-5b",
        "re-laion-5b",
        "books3",
        "the-pile",
        "ms-celeb-1m",
        "tiny-images-80m"
       ],
       "x-accepted-values": {
        "shown": 6,
        "total": 19,
        "all": "https://api.truthbear.co/schemas/gauge-aidataset-region.input.json"
       }
      }
     },
     "required": [
      "entity"
     ]
    }
   },
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "queryParams"
   ]
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "const": "json"
    },
    "example": {}
   },
   "required": [
    "type"
   ]
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/ai-dataset-lifecycle-takedown-risk-gauge-09bde014/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from aeml-x402.zeabur.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/aeml-x402.zeabur.app/llms.txt)