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Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney

Photos of Australian kids have been found in a massive AI training data set. What can we do?

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Photos of Australian children have been used without consent to train artificial intelligence (AI) models that generate images.

A new report from the non-governmental organisation Human Rights Watch has found the personal information, including photos, of Australian children in a large data set called LAION-5B. This data set was created by accessing content from the publicly available internet. It contains links to some 5.85 billion images paired with captions.

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