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Pictures of Brazilian youngsters—generally spanning their whole childhood—have been used with out their consent to energy AI instruments, together with widespread picture mills like Steady Diffusion, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned on Monday.
This act poses pressing privateness dangers to youngsters and appears to extend dangers of non-consensual AI-generated photographs bearing their likenesses, HRW’s report stated.
An HRW researcher, Hye Jung Han, helped expose the issue. She analyzed “lower than 0.0001 %” of LAION-5B, a dataset constructed from Frequent Crawl snapshots of the general public net. The dataset doesn’t include the precise images however consists of image-text pairs derived from 5.85 billion photographs and captions posted on-line since 2008.
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