HACKER Q&A
📣 drusepth

Is anyone working on an opt-in alternative to the LAION image dataset?


There's a lot of discourse around the LAION dataset right now, including some active lawsuits against Stable Diffusion. Regardless of whether it turns out to be "legal" or not, there are also a lot of people against the collection for ethical or other reasons.

I've been looking around for anyone trying to collect a dataset of opt-in images and/or with consent from their creator, but either my Google-fu is finally failing or it doesn't seem like anyone's working on such a LAION alternative.

This seems like a huge opportunity to solve a problem that adds a lot of risk to anyone looking to use generative AI for images in their own projects/business, and could potentially have a huge impact on the public's sentiment towards AI.

So... is anyone working on an image dataset that was built with some form of consent, opting in, or other more legal/ethical means to collect these images?


  👤 O__________O Accepted Answer ✓
Have you seen this website, which features opt in/out service?

- https://haveibeentrained.com/

And the related HN post:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32843477