Once upon a time you could lie only a little bit and Stanford would give you the whole ImageNet corpus. I know because, uh, a friend told me.

I’ve got no interest in moralizing on this, but if any of the big actors wanted to they could put a meaningful if not overwhelming subset of the corpus on S3, put the source code on GitHub, and you could on a modest budget see an epoch or 3.

I’m not holding my breath.