Pictures of Canadian victims are among the thousands of images depicting child sexual abuse that an internet watchdog group found in databases used to train popular artificial image generators
“That’s another slap in the face to victims,” said Lloyd Richardson, director of technology at the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.
Richardson said it shows artificial intelligence must be considered as the federal government develops its long-awaited online harms legislation.
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