Human Rights Watch finds the LAION-5B AI dataset scraped 170+ images and the personal info of Brazilian children without consent; LAION pledges to remove them (Vittoria Elliott/Wired)

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Human Rights Watch finds the LAION-5B AI dataset scraped 170+ images and the personal info of Brazilian children without consent; LAION pledges to remove them  —  A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.