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Reviewed and published by trentmaziarz, May 11, 2026. Discovered and drafted by our automated research pipeline.
Spawning 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.
Details
Source.Plus is seeded with nearly 40 million public domain and Creative Commons Zero (CC0) images sourced from libraries and museums worldwide. To help developers filter the dataset, Spawning trained classifier models designed to detect nudity, gore, and personally identifiable information within the image collection. The platform also filters out images whose creators have opted out via the Do Not Train Registry. Users can adjust the detection thresholds of these classifiers to flexibly filter the dataset to their needs. Source.Plus launched in limited beta in 2024, with plans to expand to licensed content from rights holders.
Products affected
Source.Plus
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). Spawning AI: Spawning 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 (data as of 2026-05-11) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/cfaaa056-a975-4c7a-9f9b-36887a6aea07. Accessed October 4, 2026.
- Stable link
- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/cfaaa056-a975-4c7a-9f9b-36887a6aea07
- Data as of
- May 11, 2026
- Last verified
- April 21, 2026
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.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.Creative GenSpawning AI co-founders Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst deployed Holly+, a publicly available AI instrument trained on Herndon's voice that allows anyone to upload audio and generate a version sung in Herndon's voice.
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