Spawning AI is an organization building consent infrastructure for generative-AI training data, co-founded by Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst. Spawning's Twitter Score is 27 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #36,672 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Spawning was built around the idea that artists should have meaningful say in whether their work is used to train AI models, with its stated mission centered on creating a consent layer for generative-AI training pipelines. Its first widely noted tool, HaveIBeenTrained, launched to let creators opt out of datasets used by vendors including Hugging Face and Stability AI. Spawning has since expanded its toolset to include ai.txt, a standard for publishing AI-use permissions on a per-asset basis, Kudurru, designed to block data-scraping bots, and Source. Plus, a curated repository of media cleared for AI training use.
Spawning raised a $3 million seed round led by True Ventures, with participation from Seed Club Ventures, Noise DAO, and individual backers including Abhay Parasnis, Charles Songhurst, and Balaji Srinivasan. Spawning's Source. Plus platform launched in early access seeded with nearly 40 million public-domain and CC0 images drawn from libraries and museums, and the organization has also published the Public Domain 12M dataset, a collection of public-domain and CC0 image-caption pairs intended for training generative-image models. Spawning's X account has shown no recent activity, with its most recently indexed posts approximately one year old as of mid-2026. Spawning has been mentioned by 17 accounts across 28 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Spawning include 110 founders, 32 angel investors, 34 influencers and 3 VCs, among them Stani, Fred Ehrsam, 6529, Jake Brukhman, Julian and Jacob.