Welcome to What’s New in AI, our weekly update where we bring you all the latest AI news, tools, and tips to help you excel in this new brave AI-driven world. Let’s start by focusing on the biggest (and currently breaking) story of the week:
An alarming new report from Stanford’s Internet Observatory has found that the LAION-5B dataset has at least 3,200 images of suspected child sexual abuse and so far at least a thousand images have been confirmed by Stanford in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Child Protection and other anti-abuse groups. What is most concerning is this data is currently used by tools like Stable Diffusion’s Stability AI and Google’s Imagen generators.
