There's also no agreement between Pinterest and the actual copyright owners of most of their content, so much reposted art without even credit or a link to the source.

Plus, LAION is just an index, whereas Pinterest actually hosts it.

why not? we can teach kids how a teacher's work is used to let artists starve by company:)

Worse, Pinterest even ranks highly in Google, often higher than the original.

If you'd now go and do the same, create a website that rehosts known content, Google will simply delist you.

But magically, not for Pinterest, they get a boost instead. I've always wondered what kind of under the table deal makes this possible.

i've never understood the policy either, especially because it actively makes google images worse