A look at LAION, a free AI training dataset with 5B+ images used in Stable Diffusion and Google's Imagen, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann (Bloomberg) 24-04-2023

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A look at LAION, a free AI training dataset with 5B+ images used in Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen, created by high school teacher Christoph Schuhmann — In front of a suburban house on the outskirts of the northern Germany city of Hamburg, a single word — “LAION” — is scrawled in pencil across a mailbox.