As the government races to invest in AI research, federally funded researchers stand to encounter a troubling problem: datasets tainted with dangerous, and even illegal, content. AI models are often ...
Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools. The ...
The Higher Regional Court of Hamburg has issued a ruling that contains important guidelines for the admissibility of AI training and data mining. In its ruling dated 10 December 2025, the court ...
LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models, has released a new dataset that it claims has been “thoroughly cleaned of known ...
The pause in developing large-scale AI models called for in an Open Letter is stirring up tempers and opposition, for example from open-source advocates. The non-profit Large-Scale Artificial ...
LAION-5B is an open dataset released in March 2022 by the German non-profit organization Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION), and consists of 5.85 billion image and text ...
Researchers have found child sexual abuse material in LAION-5B, an open-source artificial intelligence training dataset used to build image generation models. The discovery was made by the Stanford ...
In the recent LAION vs. Kneschke case, the Hamburg District Court addressed the application of Germany’s text and data mining (TDM) exceptions under the Copyright ...
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