The Spawning Guide to Rights Reservations - by Laura

Spawning's guide explains how rights holders can register opt-outs so AI model trainers respect them, designed to meet EU requirements in CDSM Article 4(3) and the forthcoming AI Act. Registrations go into Spawning's Do Not Train Registry (DNTR), which Stability AI and Hugging Face, along with users of Spawning's Data Diligence package, have chosen to respect. The guide recommends three steps: domain-level registration on HaveIBeenTrained.com, item-level search on the same site (which covers only LAION-5B), and the Spawning browser extension for media hosted anywhere. Spawning states that registering does not undo prior training and that it cannot force trainers to comply.