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Have you seen this website, which features opt in/out service? - https://haveibeentrained.com/ https://haveibeentrained.com/ And the related HN post: - https

Have you seen this website, which features opt in/out service? - https://haveibeentrained.com/ https://haveibeentrained.com/ And the related HN post: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843477 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843477

drusepth 4y ago
I hadn't seen that! It's a great step in the right direction, although as I understand it it's more of an opt-out system for LAION rather than its own new dataset, correct?
- O__________O 4y ago
  Think you’re underestimating complexity of getting opt-in rights to billions of photos. LAION’s image dataset is simply a list of URLs and metadata, it’s not providing the images.
Kim_Bruning 4y ago
Hmm, After a quick search I can't find very much in the way of actual company/university/project data on the site, nor can I find any clear back-references to LAION or SD or other parties. I should be finding this sort of thing easily if this site was legitimately set up by academics, FLOSS, or people who are otherwise related to SD. I've seen several scam sites preying on artist's fears. How do we know this one is legitimate?
- O__________O 4y ago
  Information is easily found on link I provided, but here’s direct link: https://spawning.ai/About https://spawning.ai/About Feel free to directly contact LAION too, since the two projects are working together.
  - Kim_Bruning 4y ago
    I mean, well, that's one of the first places I looked! And on that specific link, Ctrl-F LAION got me 0 hits. This seems to -at best- be an unaffiliated well-meaning initiative that no-one is actually currently subscribing to? Unless you have separate information not provided by the site (eg. perhaps you know some of the creators?) I swear I'm not normally quite so suspicious; but the amount of misinformation and noise on generative AI that is out there at the moment is so large that I've had to adjust my priors.
    - O__________O 4y ago
      > “ We partner with Laion, who built these datasets, to remove those links.” Which is from the text of the “I” for information link at the top of the OP link; which is where the above link is found; as in if you found that link, then you should have seen that text. Again, feel free to contact Laion.
      - Kim_Bruning 4y ago
        I will accept that they make that claim in one place. However, there is no backreference from LAION, and LAION explicitly states that they are not associated with similar sites: ( from https://laion.ai/faq/ https://laion.ai/faq/ ) > I found a dataset containing images while searching on the internet. What about copyright then? > Any dataset containing images is not released by LAION, it must have been reconstructed with the provided tools by other people. We do not host and also do not provide links on our website to access such datasets. Please refer only to links we provide for official released data. So this is probably LAIONs answer, or close enough to it that I don't feel a further need to directly contact them. Do you have any statement or evidence that might be more specific than this blanket denial? (Edit: specifically [ laion site:haveibeentrained.com ] returns 1 google hit, while [ haveibeentrained site:laion.ai ] returns 0 hits , Many references to haveibeentrained are found in source texts that are not particularly friendly about laion. ) (Edit2: I just gave haveibeentrained.com a random photo that I took this afternoon, and that -therefore- couldn't possibly be in the LAION dataset. It found a large number of near-matches. This could be somewhat misleading to some people). (Edit 3: TL;DR of this thread: I have encountered several sites that have made similar claims. I suspect they can't all be telling the truth at the same time. LAION makes a blanket denial about being associated with anyone like this. Therefore my assumption now is that possibly none of them are telling the truth. To refute this assumption, we would need some sort of 2nd or 3rd party positive evidence to the contrary. This might include such things as having the specific claim be corroborated by LAION, or by a known LAION associate. I am somehow doubtful that they would actually do that here though, as that would seem contradictory to the LAION FAQ. )

drusepth 4y ago

I hadn't seen that! It's a great step in the right direction, although as I understand it it's more of an opt-out system for LAION rather than its own new dataset, correct?

O__________O 4y ago
Think you’re underestimating complexity of getting opt-in rights to billions of photos. LAION’s image dataset is simply a list of URLs and metadata, it’s not providing the images.

Kim_Bruning 4y ago

Hmm, After a quick search I can't find very much in the way of actual company/university/project data on the site, nor can I find any clear back-references to LAION or SD or other parties. I should be finding this sort of thing easily if this site was legitimately set up by academics, FLOSS, or people who are otherwise related to SD. I've seen several scam sites preying on artist's fears. How do we know this one is legitimate?

O__________O 4y ago
Information is easily found on link I provided, but here’s direct link: https://spawning.ai/About https://spawning.ai/About Feel free to directly contact LAION too, since the two projects are working together.
- Kim_Bruning 4y ago
  I mean, well, that's one of the first places I looked! And on that specific link, Ctrl-F LAION got me 0 hits. This seems to -at best- be an unaffiliated well-meaning initiative that no-one is actually currently subscribing to? Unless you have separate information not provided by the site (eg. perhaps you know some of the creators?) I swear I'm not normally quite so suspicious; but the amount of misinformation and noise on generative AI that is out there at the moment is so large that I've had to adjust my priors.
  - O__________O 4y ago
    > “ We partner with Laion, who built these datasets, to remove those links.” Which is from the text of the “I” for information link at the top of the OP link; which is where the above link is found; as in if you found that link, then you should have seen that text. Again, feel free to contact Laion.
    - Kim_Bruning 4y ago
      I will accept that they make that claim in one place. However, there is no backreference from LAION, and LAION explicitly states that they are not associated with similar sites: ( from https://laion.ai/faq/ https://laion.ai/faq/ ) > I found a dataset containing images while searching on the internet. What about copyright then? > Any dataset containing images is not released by LAION, it must have been reconstructed with the provided tools by other people. We do not host and also do not provide links on our website to access such datasets. Please refer only to links we provide for official released data. So this is probably LAIONs answer, or close enough to it that I don't feel a further need to directly contact them. Do you have any statement or evidence that might be more specific than this blanket denial? (Edit: specifically [ laion site:haveibeentrained.com ] returns 1 google hit, while [ haveibeentrained site:laion.ai ] returns 0 hits , Many references to haveibeentrained are found in source texts that are not particularly friendly about laion. ) (Edit2: I just gave haveibeentrained.com a random photo that I took this afternoon, and that -therefore- couldn't possibly be in the LAION dataset. It found a large number of near-matches. This could be somewhat misleading to some people). (Edit 3: TL;DR of this thread: I have encountered several sites that have made similar claims. I suspect they can't all be telling the truth at the same time. LAION makes a blanket denial about being associated with anyone like this. Therefore my assumption now is that possibly none of them are telling the truth. To refute this assumption, we would need some sort of 2nd or 3rd party positive evidence to the contrary. This might include such things as having the specific claim be corroborated by LAION, or by a known LAION associate. I am somehow doubtful that they would actually do that here though, as that would seem contradictory to the LAION FAQ. )