Generative Models Reportedly Trained on Dataset Containing Private Medical Photos
March 3, 2022
Text-to-image models trained on the LAION-5B dataset, such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen, have been reported to reproduce or approximate images resembling private medical record photos allegedly included in the training data without documented consent or established mechanisms for removal.
- Alleged deployer
- stability-ai, google
- Alleged developer
- stability-ai, laion, google
- Alleged harmed parties
- people-having-medical-photos-online
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/465
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