New: a machine learning dataset, used by Google and Stable Diffusion, has been taken offline after researchers found it contained child abuse material. In short, these abusive images may have been influencing major AI products using the dataset https://www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-csam-child-abuse/
@josephcox This article raises valid issues but also regurgitates sensationalism.
IWF's claim there is self-contradictory. One analyst reckoned it was "hard to identify" but another "did it easily". They're also notorious for talking about one thing in one breath for dramatic effect, then in the next talking about something else.
Some actors cited are notorious for being very activist, playing up claims, and having a penchant for scandal. Could be, might be, possibly, becomes the sky is falling.
It's also not clear whether IWF is hunting for whatever they deem to be "obscene" or for something actually problematic here in their "partnership".
