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According to Christoph Schumann there is legislation in Europe that allows the usage of crawled data for public research institutions and nonprofit organisation
by slow_typist 4y ago
According to Christoph Schumann there is legislation in Europe that allows the usage of crawled data for public research institutions and nonprofit organisations. LAION is a registered german nonprofit (gemeinnütziger Verein).
Source: https://entwickler.de/machine-learning/laion-open-source-ai https://entwickler.de/machine-learning/laion-open-source-ai (found in another post).
- gorbachev 4y agoCommercial entities are using the data, however. I'm pretty sure the German legislation didn't mean that to be allowed.
- slow_typist 4y agoSure. But that is not in LAIONs responsibility. They provide URIs to images and the corresponding alt texts.