That's a distinction without a difference. Just as with LAION, anyone using this data set is going to be downloading the images and training on them, and the potential harms to the affected users are the same.
That's a distinction without a difference. Just as with LAION, anyone using this data set is going to be downloading the images and training on them, and the potential harms to the affected users are the same.
LAION was alleged to link to CSAM. If LAION didn't link and instead hosted/contained/distributed the actual files, I think there would be a much higher chance that someone distributing LAION could serve prison time, at least in the USA.
That seems like a pretty big difference to me.