Josh Taylor reports:
Photos of Australian children have been included in the dataset used by several AI image-generating tools without the knowledge or consent of them or their families, research by Human Rights Watch (HRW) has found.
An analysis of less than 0.0001% of the 5.85bn images contained in the Laion-5B dataset, used by services such as Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI and Midjourney, found 190 photos of Australian children scraped from the internet.
Read more at The Guardian.
In related news, The Verdict reports that Spanish prosecutors are probing Meta over allegations of breaching data protection laws by using user data for training its artificial intelligence (AI) services within the European Union.