Private Medical Photos Were Reportedly Found in LAION-5B AI Training Dataset
Description
In September 2022, an artist using the name Lapine reported finding private post-operative medical photos of herself in LAION-5B, a web-scraped image-text dataset used in AI image-synthesis research. Ars Technica confirmed her images were referenced in the dataset and reported finding thousands of similar patient medical-record photos.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- stability-ai
Alleged Developers
- stability-ai
- laion
Harmed Parties
- privacy
- lapine
- patients
- patients-whose-medical-photos-were-included-in-laion-5b
- people-whose-private-images-were-included-in-ai-training-datasets
Classification
Risk Domain
Privacy & SecurityRisk Subdomain
2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information
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