Stanford Internet Observatory

Law enforcement struggling to prosecute AI-generated child pornography, asks Congress to act

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Law enforcement is struggling to prosecute abusive, sexually explicit images of minors created by artificial intelligence (AI), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) told fellow members at a House Oversight subcommittee hearing Tuesday. Laws against child sexual abuse material (CSAM) require “an actual photo, a real photograph, of a child, to be prosecuted,” Carl Szabo, vice … Read more

Exploitative photos of children found in AI training data

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A dataset used to train popular artificial intelligence (AI) image generation tools was found to contain more than 1,000 exploitative photos of children, according to a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory. The report found that the LAION-5B dataset — created by the Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network (LAION) non-profit — contained at least … Read more