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Websites & web apps AI-assisted

Have I Been Trained?

A search engine that lets artists check whether their work is among the billions of images used to train image generators, and opt out of future training.

By
Spawning (Mat Dryhurst & Holly Herndon)
Year
2022
Country
Germany
Category
Websites & web apps
Purpose
Activism & causes, Public utility & accessibility
Degree of AI
AI-assisted
Tools
LAION-5B index, CLIP search

Where the human came in

Two artists built the index of a public dataset, then negotiated with model makers so that the opt-outs collected by the site are honoured.

Why it is not slop

AI infrastructure turned toward the people it was built on. Consent as a product, before any law required it.

Seed entry: written from public sources and awaiting editorial review.

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