While the LAION data set is sloppy in a whole bunch of ways, this is also just a mess in general. The researchers found apparent CSAM hosted on a bunch of mains

While the LAION data set is sloppy in a whole bunch of ways, this is also just a mess in general. The researchers found apparent CSAM hosted on a bunch of mainstream sites - Reddit, Twitter, Blogspot, Wordpress, XHamster and XVideos. Also apparently a whole bunch of "teen models", nudism, and Japanese "junior idol" content which... well, let's just say that a lot more things used to be legal in the relatively recent past that probably shouldn't have been and leave it at that.