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Re:The Future of AI Relies on a High School Teacher’s Free D... by tyingq on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @07:47AM (#35699151)
>Apparently LAION doesn't republish the content, only the metadata

"LAION datasets are simply indexes to the internet, i.e. lists of URLs to the original images together with the ALT texts found linked to those images."

I'm surprised link rot doesn't make this a big problem.

Re:The Future of AI Relies on a High School Teacher’s Free D... by cuteboy19 on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @06:00PM (#35707301)
There are many twitter datasets that are already 50% gone. It's very bad for reproducibility