The new dataset, Re-LAION-5B, is actually a re-release of an old dataset, LAION-5B — but with “fixes” implemented with recommendations from the nonprofit Internet Watch Foundation, Human Rights Watch, the Canadian Center for Child Protection and the now-defunct Stanford Internet Observatory. It’s available for download in two versions, Re-LAION-5B Research and Re-LAION-5B Research-Safe (which also removes additional NSFW content), both of which were filtered for thousands of links to known — and “likely” — CSAM, LAION says.
“LAION has been committed to removing illegal content from its datasets from the very beginning and has implemented appropriate measures to achieve this from the outset,” LAION wrote in a blog post. “LAION strictly adheres to the principle that illegal content is removed ASAP after it becomes known.”