Human Rights Watch (HRW) has raised the alarm on the risks involved and serious about the privacy of the children, brazilian, exposing the unauthorized use of the images for training and the tools of artificial intelligence. The images, taken from LAION-5B, a database of major to gather the photos for the web, public, include photos from various sources on the internet, including on blogs, personal videos on YouTube.
The pictures of minor children to be used without the written consent of the parents
Practical to the HRW, Hye Jung Han, identified over 170 photos of the kids from at least 10 states, the brazilian on a small piece of data LAION-5B. In these images, the division was originally for personal use on the online platforms, it was used without the consent of a parent or legal guardian to be trained means IT as a Stable Diffusion.
Despite the attempts to remove links to images of children to and from the database, HRW points out that the question of the confidentiality of juvenile brazilian goes on. The identification of these children have been assisted by the fact that the names and locations of these were included in the inscriptions of images, documenting moments in the intimate life of their daily life.
The risk of these images are of the end it still means that HE is, regardless of the steps taken to remove them publicly available from LAION-5B. Removal of links does not preclude the use of the photos in any of the others on the web, thus keeping alive the threat to the privacy of your children.
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HRW highlighted the need for greater transparency and accountability in the management of the personal information of children, and called for further action to protect their privacy on the internet. It is to be hoped that, LAION, and other organizations to be involved, be able to take effective measures to ensure the safety and security of the data of the children in the group of their own data.
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