AI tools are illegally training on real children, including for explicit material

Deepfake technology has already begun to impact young children, especially young girls. — Fortune/The New York Times

AI’s unstoppable quest for training data is hoovering up growing amounts of increasingly questionable content – including details of children whose use by AI breaks the law, researchers have found.

At least 170 links to photos and personal details of children in Brazil have been scraped from the Internet and utilised to train AI systems without parental consent or knowledge, Human Rights Watch said in a report this week. Some of those AI-systems have generated explicit and violent images of children, HRW said.