Last month, HRW researcher Hye Jung Han found 170 photos of Brazilian kids that were linked in LAION-5B, a popular AI dataset built from Common Crawl snapshots of the public web.
These photos are linked in the dataset 'without the knowledge or consent of the children or their families,' making AI-generated realistic deepfakes of children a serious concern.
Han could trace 'both children's full names and ages, and the name of the preschool they attend in Perth, in Western Australia,' raising awareness on the extent of privacy risks online.
Families who thought they had protected their kids' privacy may not realize the dangers of AI models connecting children's photos, names, and locations, posing safety risks.
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