Here is the original post by the photographer in German: https://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2023/04/24/laion-e-v-macht-ernst-schadensersatzforderung-an-

Here is the original post by the photographer in German: https://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2023/04/24/laion-e-v-macht-ernst-schadensersatzforderung-an-urheber-fuer-ki-trainingsdaten/ https://www.alltageinesfotoproduzenten.de/2023/04/24/laion-e... He sent an initial demand that LAION declined. He did not want to give up, then he made his lawyer send a letter, then LAION paid a lawyer to answer, and the invoice is for the cost of the lawyer. What I find interesting is that the photographer admits in the comments that he sells thousands of AI-generated images, probably made with an AI trained on LAION's dataset. He only doesn't want links (with alt text) to his own images in the dataset.