🚩 Report : Legal issue(s)

#98
by alexjc - opened

Hi,

The stable-diffusion-v1-5 space has the following text at the bottom:

The model was trained on the LAION-5B dataset, which scraped non-curated image-text-pairs from the internet (the exception being the removal of illegal content) and is meant for research purposes.

This interpretation fits with recent analyses, including HuggingFace's Head of Product design [1], as well as my own legal research.

So could you clarify the legal basis for releasing the model under the OpenRAIL-M license instead? I don't believe Runway has the necessary rights to do so. (I'd recommend removing & declaring the past license void.)

Thanks,
Alex Champandard

P.S. There is a formal investigation underway to what extent illegal content was removed from the dataset or not, and whether this was handled in a legal manner. Thus, I hope that Runway takes this matter seriously and acts quickly.

[1] https://twitter.com/victormustar/status/1637732968100765696

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