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Sunrise interview: AI DANGER 🧐 Personal photos of Aussie kids are being used to train powerful artificial intelligence tools, or to create malicious deepfakes, without the knowledge of their families. What parents need to know.
I recently had the opportunity to discuss a critical issue on Sunrise TV – the unauthorised scraping of personal images from the internet to train AI models. This practice not only violates our privacy but also poses significant risks, especially to children.
In our discussion, we covered how web crawlers are used to collect billions of images, including those thought to be private. Shockingly, datasets like LAION-5B have been found to include highly sensitive information such as children’s names, ages, and even the schools they attended. This data is then used to train AI generators, which can produce hyper-realistic images, sometimes even resembling the original photos.
🔍 Key Points from the Interview:
Web Scraping Techniques: Web crawlers exploit weak security measures and guessable URLs to access non-public images, often bypassing privacy settings.
Legal and Ethical Concerns: While web scraping for data is not legal, it continues to happen, raising serious questions about consent and privacy.
Impact on Children: The inclusion of children’s images in AI training datasets is particularly alarming, with potential misuse in harmful applications like deepfake apps.
Call for Legislative Action: There is an urgent need for modernised privacy laws to protect individuals, especially children, from unauthorised data scraping and misuse.
🚸 Protecting Our Kids: Parents can take steps to safeguard their children’s privacy by minimising the sharing of personal information online, opting out of data sharing with third parties, and using encrypted messaging apps for private communications.
👥 Government’s Role: It’s crucial for governments to take a strong stance against companies engaging in unauthorised data scraping and to implement penalties to deter such actions. The upcoming amendments to Australia’s Privacy Act are hopefully a step in the right direction, but more needs to be done.
📢 Watch My Full Interview.
Let’s work together to ensure our privacy is respected in the digital age.
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