Thousands of child abuse images have been discovered in a database for artificial intelligence systems, raising fears that AI tools have been “trained” on the illegal images.
Researchers have identified more than 3,000 cases of child sexual abuse material in a vast trove of images designed to create AI photo generation software.
The free database, known as “LAION-5b”, has been used to develop AI software – including a version of Stable Diffusion, a popular image generator.
