AIAAIC Alert #28
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Dataset of the week - LAION 5-B
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A large, open dataset of 5.85 billion image and text pairings developed by German non-profit collective LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network), LAION-5B was built from the Common Crawl dataset and artwork at Getty Images, Flickr, Pinterest, and elsewhere, and has been used to train Google Imagen, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and hundreds of other AI image models.
The yang: Thanks to its scale, diversity of images, accessibility, and support for multimodal learning, LAION-5B is seen to benefit machine learning applications, particularly in the fields of computer vision and natural language processing.
The yin: Critics accuse the LAION-5B dataset of violating copyright and privacy, perpetuating bias and discrimination, enabling misinformation and disinformation and other harmful content, including the exploitation and abuse of children, and contributing to the degradation of thinking and creativity and the loss of jobs.
Incidents associated with LAION-5B: