Organizations like Common Crawl and LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) lead open data initiatives. By providing freely accessible, large-scale datasets, small research teams ...

A study by the Stanford Internet Observatory found 3,226 images of suspected child sexual abuse in an AI database called LAION, which is used to train other popular text to image AI programs like ...

Open data has gained public attention because of its role in training AI image generation models like Stable Diffusion, but its importance extends to research beyond AI. It gives researchers and ...