The dataset in question is not a model, and contains no images; it is a long list of URLs, with associated tags. Someone who wished to train a model could use t

The dataset in question is not a model, and contains no images; it is a long list of URLs, with associated tags. Someone who wished to train a model could use this information to download a lot of pictures from various places on the internet, then create training and validation sets; but LAION themselves do not provide images or model weights. The photographer went after the wrong target here; if he wants his images taken off the internet he should contact whoever is hosting them at some publicly accessible URL.