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AI Watchdog: LAION-DISCO-12M

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AI Watchdog: LAION-DISCO-12M

TL;DR

  • A dataset of 12,320,916 music tracks from YouTube has been created.
  • The dataset comprises 91 years of music.
  • The dataset was assembled by LAION, a nonprofit organization based in Germany.
  • LAION builds large datasets and is funded by Hugging Face and Stability AI's co-founder, Emad Mostaque.