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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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AI trains on kids’ photos even when parents use strict privacy settings (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is such a bad headline. There is no "the AI". There are lots of different people doing unrelated things.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

You're right, it doesn't at all capture how disturbing the reality is.

Ignored privacy settings; unknown third parties can train AI models on data scrapped from private images and video host on common social media platforms.