The Human Rights Watch article mentioned in the article on photos of Australian children has also had an impact in Brazil, where the government has now blocked Meta from training AI on Brazilian personal data. The Paypers reports:
Data protection authority in Brazil (ANPD) has blocked Meta from training its AI models on Brazilian personal data, citing the risks of serious damage and difficulty to users.
The decision follows an update to Meta’s privacy policy in which the social media granted itself permission to use public Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram data from Brazil including posts, images, and captions for AI training.
After a report by Human Rights Watch revealed that LAION-5B, a large image-caption datasets used for training AI models, includes personal, identifiable photos of children in Brazil, exposing them to the risk of deepfakes and other forms of exploitation.
Read more at The Paypers.