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Thanks for the links! To me (merely an amateur observer), it is not perfectly obvious that the LAION dataset is legal, because I don't think "we don't have you

Thanks for the links! To me (merely an amateur observer), it is not perfectly obvious that the LAION dataset is legal, because I don't think "we don't have your original images anymore, we only kept the results of applying an algorithm to them" is a universal defense. If the algorithm is "resize to 640×480" you are probably still infringing, but if it's "calculate md5 checksum" you're probably not. I don't know where on the spectrum LLM training will fall, legally!

Kim_Bruning 3y ago
Heh, it does in fact calculate the MD5 checksum! In total, the fields in the LAION dataset are: image_path caption NSFW similarity LICENSE url key status error_message width height original width original height exif md5 https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/laion2b-multi-vit-l-14-embeddings https://huggingface.co/datasets/laion/laion2b-multi-vit-l-14... Note that LAION is a metadata dataset, it's not an image generation model itself. (But it has been used to train one)