Study shows AI image-generators being trained on explicit photos of children

Students walk on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif. Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory that urges technology companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built. — AP

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.