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[-] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Editing this reply to say that I was in fact right and I did not have any fundamental misunderstanding of anything. And the database in question here is called LAIOn and contains 6 billions images scraped from the web, including CSAM images.

Thanks for that. As I said, I'm not big into how AI works, so not surprised I got that wrong. The databases of everything that has come across the clear web are still there though and are available for use by people with access.

[-] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

What are you referring to by "the database of everything that has come across the clear web"?

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

NSA servers? jkjk, kinda

I think they mean Google's web-crawler index, but I don't think that the index works that way.... well, on the other hand, they do cache some stuff.

[-] 0ddysseus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

See this new article. The image database they looked into is called LAIOn. There are others though of course. I don't mean google crawlers, I mean image databases for training image generators.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-study-developers-thorn-canada-b2467386.html

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