LAION removes 2,000 child abuse imagery links from AI image-generator database.

AI researchers at LAION have removed over 2,000 links containing suspected child sexual abuse imagery from their database, which has been used to train popular AI image-generators like Stable Diffusion and Midjourney. In response to previous findings that the database contained links contributing to the production of photorealistic deepfakes depicting children, LAION worked with watchdog groups and anti-abuse organizations to clean up the database and release a revised version for future AI research. However, the next step is to withdraw tainted models still able to produce child abuse imagery.

August 30, 2024
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