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| Company type | Non-profit |
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| Industry | Artificial intelligence |
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| Website | laion |
LAION (acronym for Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit which makes open-sourced artificial intelligence models and datasets.[1] It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen.[2][3]
In February 2023, LAION was named in the Getty Images lawsuit against Stable Diffusion as a non-party.[4] In April 2023, LAION was directly sued by a German photographer who wanted to have his images removed from the training set.[5] In September 2024, the Regional Court of Hamburg dismissed the lawsuit, in what was described as a "landmark ruling on TDM [Text and data mining] exceptions for AI training data" in Germany and the EU more generally.[6]
On April 15, 2023, LAION and contributors publicly released an open source AI assistant chatbot called OpenAssistant.
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BB teacherwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Getty Images (US), Inc. v. Stability AI, Inc., 1:23-cv-00135". CourtListener. Retrieved 2023-02-08.
- ^ "A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead". Vice. 28 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-04.
- ^ Goldstein, Paul; Stuetzle, Christiane; Bischoff, Susan (2024-11-13). "Kneschke vs. LAION - Landmark Ruling on TDM exceptions for AI training data – Part 1". Kluwer Copyright Blog. Retrieved 2024-11-25.