Mar 3, 2022Single source
Private Medical Photos Were Reportedly Found in LAION-5B AI Training Dataset
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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In September 2022, an artist using the name Lapine reported finding private post-operative medical photos of herself in LAION-5B, a web-scraped image-text dataset used in AI image-synthesis research. Ars Technica confirmed her images were referenced in the dataset and reported finding thousands of similar patient medical-record photos.
What this means for youMedical photos posted online can be scraped into AI training datasets without the person's consent. At home, check where personal or medical images are shared and ask sites whether they allow web scraping.
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- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/465
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