The company also plans to allow artists and rights holders to set their own prices per download once Source.Plus exits beta later this year. Spawning will charge a flat rate fee, and also offer a subscription plan that allows customers to manage collections of images privately, download the data set up to 10,000 times a month, and gain early access to new features. The company hopes to expand the platform beyond images to other types of media, including audio and video.
Key takeaways:
- Spawning AI, founded by Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst, has launched a project called Source.Plus to curate “non-infringing” media for AI model training. The project's first initiative is a data set seeded with nearly 40 million public domain images and images under the Creative Commons’ CC0 license.
- Source.Plus is intended to give artists and rights holders more control over how their works are used in AI training. The platform allows them to set their own prices per download, with Spawning charging a flat fee.
- Spawning AI has also developed tools to filter out undesirable images and verify data ownership. Users can flag potentially infringing works and the trail of how that data was consumed can be audited.
- Spawning AI plans to expand Source.Plus beyond images to other types of media, including audio and video. The company is also considering building its own generative AI models using data from the Source.Plus data sets.