Photos of Brazilian kids—sometimes spanning their entire childhood—have been used without their consent to power AI tools ... we will do our part to help," Tyler told Ars.

Last month, HRW researcher Hye Jung Han found 170 photos of Brazilian kids ... AI models are "notorious for leaking private information," Han said. Guardrails added to image generators do not ...

LAION has now pledged to remove the Australian kids’ photos found by Human Rights Watch. However, AI developers that have already used this data can’t make their AI models “unlearn” it.

"The AI model is able to combine what it learns from those kinds of [sexualised] images, and… images of real Australian kids," Ms Hye Jung said. "[It] essentially learns from both of those ...