Initiative profile

Spawning Do Not Train Registry

WIP

Registry and opt-out workflow for marking works that should not be used in future AI training datasets.

Website
haveibeentrained.com
Latest update
Sep 14, 2025 Face Reveal launched for Have I Been Trained
Primary approach
Preference signal
Also uses
New infrastructure
Pipeline
Collect / Train

What it is

Spawning’s Do Not Train Registry is an opt-out system for creators who do not want their works included in future AI training datasets. In practice it has been closely associated with the Have I Been Trained workflow for discovering indexed works and recording training preferences.

The core idea is useful for this catalog because it turns an individual opt-out into a reusable registry signal, but the current public implementation appears to be in a transitional state.

Watchouts

The public site is currently under maintenance, and the registry only works when model builders choose to honor it in dataset curation and training workflows.

Evidence trail