On: LAION, a high school teacher’s free image database, powers AI unicorns

[Silverback_VII]

We all know the purpose for which the images linked in the dataset will be used. "We are a non-profit organization and provide only a link" is akin to taking people for fools. Why can't these systems be trained exclusively on images for which people have given consent or for which money has been paid?

[Semaphor → Silverback_VII]

> is akin to taking people for fools.

I very much disagree.

[zx8080 → Silverback_VII]

Because expensive. It's the usual "buy low, sell high" story, unless forbidden.

[gmerc → Silverback_VII]

Yea they are used in a transformational capacity