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

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