Thousands of Suspected Child Abuse Images Found in AI Dataset Used to Train Popular Apps
• An influential AI dataset called LAION-5B contains thousands of suspected child sexual abuse images • Stanford researchers used Microsoft's PhotoDNA tool to identify over 3,000 likely child abuse images in the dataset • LAION has taken the dataset offline and is working to remove any remaining links to illegal content • LAION-5B has been used to train popular AI apps like Stable Diffusion • Stability AI, creator of Stable Diffusion, has not yet commented