404 Media reports that "Largest Dataset Powering AI Images Removed After Discovery of Child Sexual Abuse Material" 🧵
However, in 2021, a preprint by @abebab, Vinay Uday Prabhu & Emmanuel Kahembwe found a number issues in the dataset including " troublesome and explicit images and text pairs of rape, pornography, malign stereotypes, racist and ethnic slurs, and other extremely problematic content."
@DAIR@abebab That's not good, 2 years with a known issue and no fix. Differently from private/proprietary datasets, this is supposed to be an open source one: nobody submitted a patch? Was there a patch submitted and it was rejected/not followed up on? I'd be very curious to know what happened after @abebab's paper was published.
@ed@DAIR@abebab I would be surprised to learn that there is a patching culture for datasets like LAION.
The story shared by 404 shows that dataset maintenance standards are badly needed. I think it’s also a cultural change that’s needed: from a culture of data dumps to one of data care
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