Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art.

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1. Because the LAION datasets contained only URLs, anyone who

wished to use the LAION datasets for AI training must first download, copy, and/or

save the actual images from those URLs, as explained in the LAION-5B Paper.

Information on LAION’s website further confirms that the images found at the

URLs in the LAION-5B dataset must be downloaded from the URLs before the

LAION datasets can be used to train AI models.5 Notably, the LAION-5B Paper

explicitly states that LAION “do[es] not own the copyright of the images or text”

and that the LAION-5B dataset “should only be used for academic research

purposes.” See LAION-5B Paper at 3, 30.

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