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Children’s photos are being ‘illegally used to train AI’
Brazilian children's photos are unknowingly being used to train AI, risking deepfake exploitation and rights violations.
The investigation revealed that LAION-5B, a major dataset used by prominent AI applications and compiled by crawling vast amounts of online content, includes links to identifiable images of Brazilian children. Their classmates misused AI technology to create sexually explicit deepfakes using photographs from the girls’ social media profiles and subsequently distributed these manipulated images online. In response, LAION, the German AI nonprofit overseeing LAION-5B, acknowledged that the dataset used some children’s photos identified by Human Rights Watch and committed to removing them.
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