The training layer: a meta-aggregator / Have I Been Trained?
Have I Been Trained?
infrastructureThe corporapaused
The archive's reading. The archive reads Have I Been Trained? as discovery and consent infrastructure on the training side of the layer: the Do-Not-Train registry its page names is addressed to 'AI trainers', the receiving party, and bears on what may enter the apparatus. Its present state is read-needed: its sources, refetched on 2026-11-01, still served a maintenance page, so neither the discovery function its name promises nor the working of the registry is on record.
| Relation to this census | infrastructure |
|---|---|
| Record type | service |
| The question it answers | consent and discovery: can a work be found in training data and withheld from training through a Do-Not-Train registry? (present state read-needed: the site served a maintenance page) |
| Kind | not recorded in the saved sources: on 2026-11-01 haveibeentrained.com served a static Spawning maintenance page that names a Do-Not-Train registry |
| Operator | Spawning (the wordmark on the page served at haveibeentrained.com) |
| Evidence | opt-out registry |
| Unit of record | not recorded |
| What it records | not recorded; the served page names a Do-Not-Train registry and addresses 'AI trainers looking to respect' it |
| In the layer | not recorded; the page names a Do-Not-Train registry that AI trainers may respect, which bears on what enters training, and says nothing of whose works are in it |
| Under whose name | not recorded |
| Found and read back | not recorded; on 2026-11-01 the home page and the FAQ URL both served the same maintenance page, and no search was available to read |
| What the apparatus makes from it | not recorded |
| Method | not recorded |
| Coverage | geography: not recorded; period: not recorded |
| Count | value: not stated in the saved sources; as_of: 2026-11-01 |
| Holdings | a Do-Not-Train registry, named on the maintenance page |
| Stated limits | the site states it is 'Under Maintenance' |
| Data access | none on 2026-11-01: the site served a maintenance page; contact by email for AI trainers (the address is obscured in the saved text) |
| Licence | not recorded |
| Lifecycle | state: paused; detail: on 2026-11-01 haveibeentrained.com, its /faq URL and spawning.ai each served a static 'Under Maintenance' page with the Spawning wordmark (the saved HTML is plain markup and states that no JavaScript is used); the sources were refetched at 05:07 UTC on 2026-11-01 and still served the same page; when the maintenance began, and what the site served before, is not recorded |
| Version and time | maintenance_observed: 2026-11-01; refetched: 2026-11-01T05:07Z (manifest); read: 2026-11-01 |
What its record can settle
- that on 2026-11-01 haveibeentrained.com and its FAQ URL served a Spawning maintenance page
- that Spawning names a Do-Not-Train registry and invites AI trainers who would respect it to make contact
What it cannot settle
- whether a named work or image is in any training set (no search was served)
- what the Do-Not-Train registry holds, how a work is entered or how trainers apply it
- whether any trainer respects the registry
Kept apart
- NOT readable as a search tool on the day read: it served a maintenance page
- NOT a statement that any trainer honours the Do-Not-Train registry: the page invites trainers 'looking to respect' it to make contact
- NOT a script-rendered page left unread: the saved HTML is a static maintenance notice
- NOT a literary corpus: discovery and consent infrastructure, read on a day it served a maintenance page
- NOT the Do-Not-Train registry itself: the registry is a separate object named on the page
Evidence
- maintenance (the resource's own statement):
Spawning Under Maintenance Hacking the mainframe...
https://haveibeentrained.com/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 40dc9cb4a48518b8… - registry (the resource's own statement):
AI trainers looking to respect the Do-Not-Train registry, please reach out to us at
https://haveibeentrained.com/ · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 40dc9cb4a48518b8… - faq_same_page (the resource's own statement):
Spawning Under Maintenance Hacking the mainframe... AI trainers looking to respect the Do-Not-Train registry
https://haveibeentrained.com/faq · read 2026-11-01 · http 200 · sha256 6ca4efeb6186770e…
Unchecked
the present state of the service: read-needed; the refetch of 2026-11-01 05:07 UTC served the maintenance page again; the site's search and FAQ: on 2026-11-01 both URLs served the maintenance page, so the search, its index, its opt-out procedure and its FAQ text are unread; spawning.ai (spawning-hibt--spawning): 71 characters of text, below the census's reading threshold and unquoted; its saved HTML is titled 'Source.Plus' and serves the same maintenance notice; the saved HTML of haveibeentrained.com carries a meta description, 'Data Governance for Generative AI', outside the saved text and so not verbatim-checked here; the name 'Have I Been Trained?' does not appear in the saved text; it is taken from the domain
Cite: Lee Sharks, ed. "Have I Been Trained?." The training layer: a meta-aggregator, traininglayerliterature.org, compiled 2026-11-01. https://www.traininglayerliterature.org/aggregators/spawning-hibt