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Big tech commits to fighting harmful AI sexual imagery by curbing dataset nudity

Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft and OpenAI agree to Biden-brokered deal
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President Joe Biden speaks from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, during an event to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and to mark Disability Pride Month. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Several leading artificial intelligence companies pledged Thursday to remove nude images from the data sources they use to train their AI products, and committed to other safeguards to curb the spread of harmful sexual deepfake imagery.

In a deal brokered by the Biden administration, tech companies Adobe, Anthropic, Cohere, Microsoft and OpenAI said they would voluntarily commit to removing nude images from AI training datasets 鈥渨hen appropriate and depending on the purpose of the model.鈥

The White House announcement was part of a image-based sexual abuse of children as well as the creation of intimate AI deepfake images of adults without their consent.

Such images have 鈥渟kyrocketed, disproportionately targeting women, children, and LGBTQI+ people, and emerging as one of the fastest growing harmful uses of AI to date,鈥 said a statement from the White House鈥檚 Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Joining the tech companies for part of the pledge was Common Crawl, a repository of data constantly trawled from the open internet that鈥檚 a key source used to train AI chatbots and image-generators. It committed more broadly to responsibly sourcing its datasets and safeguarding them from .

In a separate pledge Thursday, another group of companies 鈥 among them Bumble, Discord, Match Group, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok 鈥 announced a set of voluntary principles to prevent image-based sexual abuse. The announcements were tied to the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act.





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