Personal photos of Australian children used without consent to train Artificial Intelligence

A new report from Human Rights Watch reveals that personal photos or images of children in Australia have been used to train some artificial intelligence tools without the consent or knowledge of the children and their families.

Is your child's image being used to generate AI pictures? Source: SBS

Key Points

• Human Rights Watch discovered that a dataset used to train powerful artificial intelligence tools contained links to images of children, scraped or collected from the internet.
• Another concern highlighted in the Human Rights Watch report is the use of images of First Nations children in Australia.
• Experts are calling for the swift development of laws to keep up with emerging technologies.