A German stock photographer tried to get his photos removed from the AI-training LAION dataset. Lawyers replied that he owes $979 for making an unjustified copyright claim. The photographer, Robert Kneschke, found out in February that his photographs were being used to train AI through a site called Have I Been Trained? The dataset has been used by companies like Stability AI, which supported the dataset’s development, to train AI models that generate images.
Source: A Photographer Tried to Get His Photos Removed from an AI Dataset. He Got an Invoice Instead.