Child abuse images removed from AI image-generator training source, researchers say

Students walk on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California. The cleaned-up version of the LAION dataset comes as governments around the world are taking a closer look at how some tech tools are being used to make or distribute illegal images of children. — AP

Artificial intelligence researchers said on Aug 30 they have deleted more than 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery from a dataset used to train popular AI image-generator tools.

The LAION research dataset is a huge index of online images and captions that’s been a source for leading AI image-makers such as Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.