> LAION-5B openly indexed copyrighted data that it had no business collecting.
This seems to be legal in many countries (from what I know, the UK, EU, Japan and Singapore) due to the TDM (Text and Data Mining) exception, especially for researchers.
This seems to be legal in many countries (from what I know, the UK, EU, Japan and Singapore) due to the TDM (Text and Data Mining) exception, especially for researchers.
All these concern trolls are bad actors. All of them.
Unless you literally steal someone's work and use it / sell it as your own, all the data mining is moral and should be legal if it isn't already.
Artists creating work are not releasing it on the internet with ShareAlike licenses or any other license which openly allows derivative work or further distribution without a license. This is literally providing a means to stealing people’s work.
How is this any different from providing a listing of copyrighted movies and games and a means to download them, a la The Pirate Bay?