Human Rights Watch children's rights and technology researcher Hye Jung Han said the finding should concern parents and policy makers as the images could be used to create deepfake images that put children at risk. CLASESS Human Rights Watch analysed a fraction of the 5.85 billion images and captions in the LAION-5B dataset and identified 190 images of children from Australia, ranging from babies photographed shortly after birth to school students dressed up for Book Week. The data, which had been scraped from a wide variety of online sources, included links to photos of Australian infants and toddlers, some of whom could be identified by name or by the preschool they attended. In addition to privacy restrictions, Dr Kendal said Australians would benefit from greater training and success all reading program education in the ethical use of AI technology so data that had been collected was not used to inflict harm.
