AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out

AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3ad58k/ai-is-probably-using-your-images-and-its-not-easy-to-opt-out

Viral image-generating AI tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are powered by massive datasets of images that are scraped from the internet, and if one of those images is of you, there’s no easy way to opt out, even if you never explicitly agreed to have it posted online.

In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.

AI Is Probably Using Your Images and It's Not Easy to Opt Out

Sep 26, 2022, 1:35pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3ad58k/ai-is-probably-using-your-images-and-its-not-easy-to-opt-out > Viral image-generating AI tools like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion are powered by massive datasets of images that are scraped from the internet, and if one of those images is of you, there’s no easy way to opt out, even if you never explicitly agreed to have it posted online. > In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset, which was used to train Stable Diffusion and Google’s Imagen.