Child sexual abuse images discovered in LAION-5B training dataset
Date: 2023-12
Affected: Foundation image-model ecosystem
Attack vector: model-poisoning
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

Stanford Internet Observatory researchers found over 3,000 images of confirmed and suspected CSAM in the LAION-5B dataset used to train Stable Diffusion and other foundation image models. LAION pulled the dataset; researchers warned that pre-trained models retained the influence.


Mitigations:

Architectural layers (MAESTRO):