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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.

Spawning AI offers Have I Been Trained (HIBT), a free tool that lets artists search the LAION-5B image dataset to find out whether their work was used to train AI image models, and add those works to the Do Not Train Registry.

Details

HIBT uses image-matching and text-search to scan the LAION-5B dataset — a collection of roughly 5.8 billion images used to train models like Stable Diffusion. Artists can upload an image or search by text to see matching results, then opt those works out of future AI training. Works flagged in the Do Not Train Registry (DNTR) are honored by partners including Stability AI and Hugging Face. As of March 2023, over 80 million artworks had been opted out, with the bulk coming through platform partnerships with ArtStation and Shutterstock.

Products affected

Have I Been TrainedDo Not Train Registry

Sources & Evidence

Company Disclosure

Have I Been Trained is Back!

Spawning Blog (Substack)·Feb 2024

https://spawning.substack.com/p/have-i-been-trained-is-back

Company Disclosure

Spawning opts out 78 million artworks from AI training

Spawning Blog (Substack)·Mar 2023

https://spawning.substack.com/p/spawning-opts-out-78-million-artworks

News Article

Spawning lays out plans for letting creators opt out of generative AI training

TechCrunch·May 2023

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/03/spawning-lays-out-its-plans-for-letting-creators-opt-out-of-generative-ai-training/

News Article

Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion

MIT Technology Review·Dec 2022

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/16/1065247/artists-can-now-opt-out-of-the-next-version-of-stable-diffusion/

Cite this record

Trace Foundation. (2026). Spawning AI: Spawning AI offers Have I Been Trained (HIBT), a free tool that lets artists search the LAION-5B image dataset to find out whether their work was used to train AI image models, and add those works to the Do Not Train Registry (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c5240a3e-5bdc-48c2-a1de-9bfee36c96af. Accessed October 4, 2026.

Stable link: https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/c5240a3e-5bdc-48c2-a1de-9bfee36c96af
Data as of: May 11, 2026
Last verified: April 21, 2026

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Other practices by Spawning AI

ProductivitySpawning AI offers the Data Diligence package, an API and open-source Python library that automates the checking of media URLs against opt-out registries so AI developers can filter out creator-restricted content before training their models.Data AnalysisSpawning AI offers Source.Plus, a marketplace that uses classifier models to detect nudity, gore, and personally identifiable information in images, helping AI developers curate consenting, high-quality training datasets.OtherSpawning AI offers Kudurru, a network-based tool that detects web scrapers collecting images for AI training and allows website owners to block them or send back substitute images.

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