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Say it with me folks: regulatory capture.

Google et Al wants to make it illegal for the average user to run any kind of ai model locally.. it's scaremongering.

Even if po}pular image generation AIs did have images of children as part of their training dataset how many people would be able to have them generate anything even remotely like that?

Big tech will use this research, and research like it, to de-democratize artificial intelligence and take it out of the hands of ordinary people while actual pedophiles are training image generation AIs on actual child sexual assault media.

Sooner or later someone with a full blown cp generating stable diffusion model will be found and big tech is going to latch on to it like a lamprey on a shark, doing everything in their power to best the world over the head with it and ensure only they have the tools to make aim

3200 images is 0.001% of the dataset in question, obviously sucked in by mistake. The problematic images ought to be removed from the dataset, but this does not "contaminate" models trained on the dataset in any plausible way.

Let me guess its a miniscule percent that was included by mistake. And its been used as justification to prevent u running your own model but its safe for large corporations to run them?

All of our protect the children legislation is typically about inhibiting technology that might be used to cause harm and not about assuring children have access to places of safety, adequate food and comfort, time with and access to parents, freedom to live and play.

Y'know, all those things that help make kids resilient to bullies and challenges of growing up. Once again, we leave our kids cold and hungry in poverty while blaming the next new thing for their misery.

So I call shenanigans. Again.

Honest question, why is this a problem rather than a solution?

If these kids don't exist, and having those fake pictured make some people content, what's the harm?

Kinda reminds me of furries getting horny over wolf drawings, who cares?

False headlines about this took no time at all.

One dataset found suspected images, comprising approximately 0% of examples. Out of a bajillion. And immediately called the cops. But the headline acts like "scientific proof all AIs are fed these images!!!" Which has been the fantasy peddled by people who know less than nothing about this technology, and god fucking dammit, we're gonna be explaining this forever.

An AI does not need pictures of Shrek riding a unicycle, to combine the concept of "Shrek" and "unicycle." Satisfying multiple arbitrary labels is kinda the whole point. The fact it can combine "child" and "porn" is never going to stop being a thing, unless you completely scrub all examples of both those unrelated concepts.

And even that might not work.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built.

Those same images have made it easier for AI systems to produce realistic and explicit imagery of fake children as well as transform social media photos of fully clothed real teens into nudes, much to the alarm of schools and law enforcement around the world.

Until recently, anti-abuse researchers thought the only way that some unchecked AI tools produced abusive imagery of children was by essentially combining what they've learned from two separate buckets of online images — adult pornography and benign photos of kids.

It’s not an easy problem to fix, and traces back to many generative AI projects being “effectively rushed to market” and made widely accessible because the field is so competitive, said Stanford Internet Observatory's chief technologist David Thiel, who authored the report.

LAION was the brainchild of a German researcher and teacher, Christoph Schuhmann, who told the AP earlier this year that part of the reason to make such a huge visual database publicly accessible was to ensure that the future of AI development isn't controlled by a handful of powerful companies.

Google built its text-to-image Imagen model based on a LAION dataset but decided against making it public in 2022 after an audit of the database “uncovered a wide range of inappropriate content including pornographic imagery, racist slurs, and harmful social stereotypes.”

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That is bound to happen if what has been used is images from the open web. What's the news

AWW HELL NAH

These kinds of things are inevitable unfortunately. AI is just a tool and it just really depends on how it's used. Just like a gun. I think the biggest issue here is that AI was adopted so quickly. It's been used by tons of companies that actually don't understand what it is and does so it's the wild west right now without any regulations. I'm not entirely sure what kind of regulations you can even put on AI if any.