Human Rights Watch raised alarm over unauthorized use of Brazilian children's photos in the LAION-5B dataset, highlighting privacy risks and potential AI misuse.

The LAION-5B dataset, comprising image-text pairs from online images since 2008, included 170 photos of children, raising data protection concerns.

LAION has removed links to these images, but similar issues may persist in other AI datasets.

The dataset was taken down due to connections with illegal content, including child sexual abuse material.

Brazilian girls reported harassment through AI tools creating explicit deepfakes, intensifying the concern.

HRW calls for government intervention to safeguard children's data from AI exploitation, stressing the urgency of data privacy protection.

Stability AI, the creator of the AI tool, was unreachable for comment.