@hipsterelectron@social.treehouse.systems i wouldn't be surprised tho if this were true — but another disappointing thing about the @404mediaco@mastodon.social coverage is that it at no point mentions the serious and widely known auditing work of LAION by @abebab@scholar.social and colleagues (e.g. recent Neurips paper https://openreview.net/forum?id=6URyQ9QhYv ); a clear form of bropropriation, only white men and Stanford folks get to shine in this story