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Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say

Artificial intelligence researchers said Friday that they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a database used to train popular AI image-generator tools

The Independent UK

AI Researchers Remove Child Sexual Abuse Imagery Links

AI researchers address child sexual abuse imagery issue in image-generator tools, LAION database cleaned up to prevent misuse.

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Photos of Australian kids have been found in a massive AI training data set. What can we do?

Photos of Australian children have been used without consent to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that generate images.

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Photos of Australian children used in dataset to train AI, human rights group says

Human Rights Watch found links to 190 photos of kids that were scraped off internet without families’ consent

The Guardian - AU

AI tools are illegally training on real children, including for explicit material

170 photos of Brazilian children have been scraped without parental consent, Human Rights Watch said.

Fortune

It was ‘a matter of time’ before explicit pictures of kids were found in an AI training database—and that’s just the tip of the iceberg, experts warn

A Stanford research center found more than 1,000 illegal images depicting child sexual abuse in a database used to train image-generation tools like Stable Diffusion.

Fortune

Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children

Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built

The Independent UK

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UK and US intervene amid AI industry’s rapid advances

Competition and Markets Authority sends ‘pre-warning’ to sector, while White House announces measures to address risks

The Guardian - UK

EU urged to protect grassroots AI research or risk losing out to US

Experts warn Brussels it cannot afford to leave artificial intelligence in the hands of foreign firms such as Google

The Guardian - UK

Commentary: Beware a world where artists are replaced by robots. It’s starting now

Like many artists, I’ve looked in horror at generative image AI, a technology that is poised to eliminate humans from the field of illustration.

Los Angeles Times

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