The main reason why Stable Diffusion is worried about NSFW is that people will use it to generate disgusting amounts of CSAM. If LAION-5B or OpenAI's CLIP have ever seen CSAM - and given how these datasets are literally just scraped off the Internet, they have - then they're technically distributing it. Imagine the "AI is just copying bits of other people's art" argument, except instead of statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringement, we're talking about time in pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
At least if people have to finetune the model on that shit, then you can argue that it's not your fault because someone had to do extra steps to put stuff in there.
At least if people have to finetune the model on that shit, then you can argue that it's not your fault because someone had to do extra steps to put stuff in there.