LAION-5B: An Open Large-Scale Dataset for Training Next Generation Image-Text Models

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LAION-5B is a filtered, CLIP-scored collection of billions of image-caption pairs scraped from the web and released openly by the LAION non-profit. It supplied the training data behind Stable Diffusion and many open CLIP and vision-language models, shifting a major bottleneck -- data -- from proprietary to public. It also foregrounded the governance, consent, and safety questions that come with web-scale datasets.