LAION
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About
LAION is a non-profit organization dedicated to democratizing large-scale machine learning research by providing open datasets, tools, and models. Composed of members worldwide, LAION's core mission is to make foundational ML resources accessible to the general public, fostering open education and promoting the efficient use of energy and computing resources. They achieve this by encouraging the reuse of existing datasets and models, rather than constantly training from scratch, thereby addressing environmental concerns related to extensive computing. LAION is funded through donations and public research grants, ensuring that crucial advancements in large-scale machine learning are freely available to all interested communities. They provide datasets like LAION-400M, LAION-5B, and LAION-Aesthetics, along with models like Clip H/14, all designed for truly open and free AI development.
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Features
• funded by donations and public research grants
• public education and open access to ml knowledge
• promotes efficient resource use and environmental sustainability
• focus on democratizing ml research
• non-profit and community-driven organization
• tools for machine learning research
• open-source machine learning models (e.g., clip h/14)
• large-scale open datasets (laion-400m, laion-5b, laion-aesthetics)
FAQs
Does LAION datasets respect copyright laws?
LAION datasets are indexes to the internet, containing URLs and ALT texts. While CLIP embeddings were computed, original images were discarded. Researchers must reconstruct image data.
Links in your dataset show to my copyrighted data. I would like to have them removed.
LAION is a non-profit research organization. TDM exemptions (Art. 3 EU TDM exemption, §60d UrhG of German law) permit LAION to use copyrighted material for research on learning algorithms.
Do the datasets contain images that may be disturbing for viewers?
No, but links in the datasets can lead to disturbing or discomforting images depending on the filter or search method employed by the user.
I found a dataset containing images while searching on the internet. What about copyright then?
Any dataset containing images is not released by LAION; it's reconstructed by others using provided tools. LAION does not host or link to such datasets, refer only to official links.
I found my name and my picture in the dataset. I am an EU citizen and I want to protect my personal data as allowed by GDPR. What should I do?
If your name is in ALT text without your image, it's not GDPR personal data. If URL/picture contains your image, request takedown via GDPR page. LAION removes verifiable entries from controlled repositories.
Do your scripts respect robots.txt instructions?
LAION does not crawl websites for datasets; Common Crawl did and respected robots.txt. LAION only analyzes Common Crawl data and assesses image value.
Pricing Plans
Free
Free Plan• Large-scale image-text datasets (LAION-400M, LAION-5B, LAION-Aesthetics)
• CLIP vision transformer models (Clip H/14)
• Tools for machine learning research
• 100% Free Access
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