[Footnote7341]

Such a vanishingly small percentage of the images its not even worth calculating. Of course search engines also contain these links, LAION-5B only contains links not images as well....

protect the kids!!! or something. Can we do a scandal about how many 'extremist' images are in the data-set next too? anti-vaxer, climate denier, nazi, religious extremist propaganda, scientific misinformation. Maybe we're all safer off using corporate models with closed data sets so no one gets any of the wrong ideas.

[WheatMillington]

For the children who have been victimised, I doubt the small percentage provides any comfort.

[ipaddr]

The victims have already been victimized many years ago. Finding this content in a training set doesn't re-victimize them.

[127361]

Yes, and it's better we spend the effort on preventing the physical abuse from happening in the first place.

[nulld3v]

Wtf, if you can get rid of the images why wouldn't you? Clearly it's not an exorbitant amount of work as shown in the paper, they use very conventional techniques.

[colechristensen]

CSAM does not fall under “freedom of expression”, everything else you list does. It’s not a slippery slope.

Resist anyone’s attempt to make everything else you list illegal to express or possess.