Thanks for clarifying that. And that's great that those DB downloads are available. I didn't like the idea of scraping the data in the first place so never went that route.
I'm guessing they released their data in a different format for download? Otherwise you'd have to scrape it which is not as easy as having it in a database.
I haven't downloaded the database myself, but I imagine if you did it wouldn't be too hard to get that data. Looks like you can get the torrent here https://laion.ai/blog/laion-400-open-dataset/
I'm sorry but I didn't find this entirely useful. Are they allowing us to use the raw data sources? If so, I wasn't able to download anything, just clicked through and found more documentation.
You don't necessarily need to get your hands on the actual database. You can also obtain the data through a side channel such as debug pages or errors messages being a little bit too generous with information.
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