AI Watchdog: LAION-DISCO-12M

Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into how music tracks are taken to train AI tools. This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry.

A collection of 12,320,916 music tracks from YouTube, totaling 91 years of music. The dataset was assembled by LAION, a nonprofit based in Germany that builds large datasets and has received funding from Hugging Face and Stability AI’s co-founder and former CEO Emad Mostaque.