Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools, including popular image generators like Stable Diffusion, Human ...

Last month, HRW researcher Hye Jung Han found 170 photos of Brazilian kids that were linked in LAION-5B, a popular AI dataset built from Common Crawl snapshots of the public web. Now, she has ...

A new report issued by Human Rights Watch reveals that a widely used, web-scraped AI training dataset includes images of and information about real children — meaning that generative AI tools ...

Billions of Brazilian kids’ images used to train AI models HRW researcher Hye Jung Han exposed the problem after analyzing a fraction (less than 0.0001%) of LAION-5B, a dataset built from Common ...

This year, Meta AI, available on platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook, is enabling users to generate unique Diwali-themed images and stickers to share with friends and family.

LAION has now pledged to remove the Australian kids’ photos found by Human Rights Watch. However, AI developers that have already used this data can’t make their AI models “unlearn” it.