This isn’t as clear to me as it is to others for two reasons:
1. The alt-text/caption from the original source is copyrighted and they outright copy it.
2. Facilitating copyright infringement is often illegal, and it’s clear that LAION put together this resource to facilitate automatic copying of the works for unauthorized use — and then encouraged other people to do exactly that.
1. The alt-text/caption from the original source is copyrighted and they outright copy it.
2. Facilitating copyright infringement is often illegal, and it’s clear that LAION put together this resource to facilitate automatic copying of the works for unauthorized use — and then encouraged other people to do exactly that.