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> LAION-5B openly indexed copyrighted data that it had no business collecting. Seems like an open and shut fair use claim, web indexing (not even scraping, jus
by Blackthorn 4y ago
> LAION-5B openly indexed copyrighted data that it had no business collecting.
Seems like an open and shut fair use claim, web indexing (not even scraping, just indexing) is not uncommon...
- ritwikgupta 4y agoWhether or not that data can be used ethically is an entirely separate conversation, one that IRBs have spent decades answering, and a process that LAION completely skirts on the basis of being a company.
- Blackthorn 4y agoI mean, sure, but that has nothing to do with the data being copyrighted or not.