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Human Rights Watch: AI Industry Violates Privacy of Australian Children by Using Personal Images for Training

Jul 2, 2024, 08:30 PM

The privacy of Australian children is being violated on a large scale by the artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Human Rights Watch has raised concerns that personal images, names, locations, and ages of Australian children are being used to train some of the world's leading AI models without consent. Even when parents use strict privacy settings, AI systems are still able to access and utilize these images, including unlisted YouTube videos. This practice has raised serious ethical concerns about privacy protection in the digital age. The use of these images in datasets to train AI could be a breach of privacy law.