A look at LAION, a free AI training data set with 5B+ images used in Google's Imagen and Stable Diffusion, 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. Tweets: @marissalnew , @aggichristiane , and @oliviasolon Tweets: Marissa Newman / @marissalnew : Latest with @aggichristiane: Have you ever tried Stable Diffusion and wondered how it can generate just about any image? The answer is in the mountains of data scraped from across the internet and made available by this German high school teacher 1/🧵 https://www.bloomberg.com/... @aggichristiane : In all this talk about potential benefits and pitfalls of an AI boom, what's less talked about is this wouldn't be possible without mountains of data. We spoke to a co-creator of LAION, an open source data set for training AI https://www.bloomberg.com/... with @marissalnew / @jl142 Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : “When Schuhmann isn't teaching physics and computer science to German teens, he works with a small team of volunteers building the world's biggest free AI training data set” Fascinating story from @marissalnew and @aggichristiane https://twitter.com/...