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Some do. A lot depends on the library’s resources, but the Library of Congress has a lot of free imagery available, and I think a number of other large public l

by dhosek 3y ago

Some do. A lot depends on the library’s resources, but the Library of Congress has a lot of free imagery available, and I think a number of other large public libraries with art collections also do the same.

autoexec 3y ago
Hopefully they're taking advantage of this release and adding these images and scans into their own collections.
- chefandy 3y ago
  I'd be shocked if the IA wasn't all over this already.
  - GuB-42 3y ago
    Many AIs didn't care about whether images were free to use before training. Including many from Getty, with the watermark, and it resulted in a lawsuit that is still ongoing. And 88k images is tiny when we consider that LAION has billions of entries.
    - Vinnl 3y ago
      IA = the Internet Archive, https://archive.org https://archive.org.
      - chefandy 3y ago
        Yeah, sorry. Theory of mind failure on my part. Not everybody has my list of acronyms in their head, apparently.