[6] On April 15, 2023, LAION and contributors publicly released an open source AI assistant chatbot called OpenAssistant.

[13][14] An investigation by Bayerischer Rundfunk showed that LAION's datasets, hosted on Hugging Face, contain large amounts of private and sensitive data harvested from public websites.

[15] In December 2023, the Stanford Internet Observatory released a report on LAION-5B that found 3,226 suspected instances of links to child sexual abuse material with 1,008 of these being externally validated.

[17] OpenAssistant is an artificial intelligence (AI) open source chat-based assistant that understands tasks, can interact with third-party systems and retrieve information dynamically to do so.

One of the goals for development includes free access to large language models that can be run locally on consumer hardware.