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Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy & AI4Media / Better Images of AI / Humans Do The Heavy Data Lifting / CC-BY 4.0 In The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas, the fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin describes a fantastic city wherein technological advancement has ensured a life of abundance for all who live there. Hidden beneath the city, where nobody needs to confront her or acknowledge her existence, is a human child living in pain and filth, a cruel necessity of Omelas’ strange infrastructure. In the past, Omelas served as a warning about technology. Today, it has become an apt description for generative AI systems. Stanford Internet Observatory’s David Thiel — building on crucial prior work by researchers including Dr. Abeba Birhane — recently confirmed more than 1,000 URLS containing verified Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) is buried within LAION-5B, the training dataset for Stable Diffusion 1.5, an AI image tool that transformed photography and illustration in 2023. Stable Diffusion is an op

LAION-5B, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and the Original Sin of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press LAION-5B, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and the Original Sin of Generative AI Eryk Salvaggio / Jan 2, 2024 Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy & AI4Media / Better Images of AI / Humans Do The Heavy Data Lifting / CC-BY 4.0 Republish Share In The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas , the fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin describes a fantastic city wherein technological advancement has ensured a life of abundance for all who live there. Hidden beneath the city, where nobody needs to confront her or acknowledge her existence, is a

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