Are there any histories of the MNIST digits dataset out there from an anthropological, STS, or critical data studies perspective?
There's this #NeurIPS2019 paper that gets into a thinner history of some of the pre-processing behind the dataset: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2019/file/51c68dc084cb0b8467eafad1330bce66-Paper.pdf

