LAION
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LAION (acronym for Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit which makes open-sourced artificial intelligence models and datasets. It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen.
Key facts
- Company.name
- LAION
- Company.logo
- LAION logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 150px
- Company.type
- Non-profit
- Company.industry
- Artificial intelligence
- Software.title
- OpenAssistant
- Software.screenshot
- Open Assistant Dashboard.png
- Software.logo
- Open-Assistant-logo.svg
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of the data collection web portal
- Software.developer
- LAION and contributors
- Software.license
- Apache License 2.0
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- Official website
- laion.ai
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- impressum URL
- laion.ai/impressum
- FAQ URL
- laion.ai/faq
- official blog URL
- laion.ai/blog
- privacy policy URL
- laion.ai/privacy-policy
- social media followers
- 9385
- Commons category
- LAION
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- Image datasets
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LAION (acronym for Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) is a German non-profit which makes open-sourced artificial intelligence models and datasets. It is best known for releasing a number of large datasets of images and captions scraped from the web which have been used to train a number of high-profile text-to-image models, including Stable Diffusion and Imagen.
In February 2023, LAION was named in the Getty Images lawsuit against Stable Diffusion as a non-party. In April 2023, LAION was directly sued by a German photographer who wanted to have his images removed from the training set. In September 2024, the Regional Court of Hamburg dismissed the lawsuit, in what was described as a "landmark ruling on TDM [Text and data mining] exceptions for AI training data" in Germany and the EU more generally.