• An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images

    An Influential AI Dataset Contains Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images

    An influential machine learning dataset—the likes of which has been used to train numerous popular image-generation applications—includes thousands of suspected images of child sexual abuse, a new academic report reveals. The report, put together by Stanford University’s Internet Observatory, says that LAION-5B, a massive tranche of visual media, includes a significant number of illegal abuse…