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There is a lot of porn there
I'm one of the people building this. Hi HN, AMA :)
I'm one of the people building this. Hi HN, AMA :)
It's surprising how poorly labeled these images are; who is curating this collection? Can't they crowd-source a proper labeling project - I wonder how much better things like Stable Diffusion would be if its training would include correct, complete labels for the images. I'm sure lots of folks would willingly spend a few minutes here and there to aid with the labeling if it means they get to enjoy the model for free.
part of our idea is that artists can help with labelling their own work
Pretty sure they are trying to figure out a way their art can’t be used to train an AI and won’t be willingly participating in making it easier.
Wow, so I've been trained. Many times over. Photos stolen from my personal portfolio.
You mean the portfolio which, by definition to be in that dataset, was marked for indexing by robots.txt, and made available publicly to unauthenticated GET requests on the internet?
I'd love to know how this works. I entered my own name for the lols, and it returned mostly paintings of the Cape Winelands in South Africa where I grew up, which is pretty creepy.
It's surprising how poorly labeled these images are; who is curating this collection? Can't they crowd-source a proper labeling project - I wonder how much better things like Stable Diffusion would be if its training would include correct, complete labels for the images. I'm sure lots of folks would willingly spend a few minutes here and there to aid with the labeling if it means they get to enjoy the model for free.
The LAION-5B set in particular is filtered by it's CLIP embeddings - basically run a better AI to classify the images, and check that the two descriptions rate highly enough for similarity, which in turn lets the system have some confidence an image isn't completely wrong (also the step you filter out NSFW and other things if you want, generally).
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You mean the portfolio which, by definition to be in that dataset, was marked for indexing by robots.txt, and made available publicly to unauthenticated GET requests on the internet?
You mean my intellectual property that they are now charging to buy credits to rip off with a plagiarism algorithm? All rights reserved. I didn't agree for them to use my IP commercially.
There is a lot of porn there
I'll get downvoted massively, but porn is by definition art (meant to be viewed and evoke reactions, just as advertising art is), and has been some of the most important creative outputs for as almost as long as humans have been creating art.
And when they mix the two things get interesting. Having topless women selling (cow’s) milk was a very strange experience as a “prudish” American.
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You mean the portfolio which, by definition to be in that dataset, was marked for indexing by robots.txt, and made available publicly to unauthenticated GET requests on the internet?
This seems no different than the controversy over GPL code being used to train Github Copilot. Just because it's publicly available and allows indexing doesn't say anything about the license it's released under.