AI Image Training Database Found to Contain Child Abuse Images

Stanford study reveals over 1,000 explicit images in LAION's open-source database, raising concerns about the misuse of AI.

Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center has found over 1,000 illegal images depicting child sexual abuse in an open-source database used to train popular image-generation tools.
The database, created by nonprofit LAION, contains more than 5 billion links to online images, which companies use as training data for their AI models.
Experts blame a race to innovate and lack of accountability in the AI space for the presence of such explicit content in training data.
LAION has temporarily taken down its datasets and will ensure they are safe before republishing them.
Concerns are raised about the ability of AI to create explicit images of children, putting children at risk in the real world.