Exposed! Startup AI’s Nude-Photo-Packed Database Makes Quite The Exhibitionist Leap!
“Huge Trove of Nude Images Leaked by AI Image Generator Startup’s Exposed Database”
“The open database containing scraped data from multiple image-generation startups exposed an enormous cache revealing roughly 400GB of data—that amounts to roughly 560,000 images, many of which were explicitly nude AI-generated images of women.” It seems like our buddies at the AI-based startups are as adept at maintaining database security as cats are at staying out of boxes. A massive trove of images, to the tune of 400GB has been leaked, and guess what? A good portion of them are nude images of women, generated by artificial intelligence. It’s interesting, and uncannily comic, as it is unsettling.
To begin with, glance over at the superior handling of facial recognition tech. With startling astuteness, AI started off on a merry journey of mapping a woman’s physique, not forgetting any detail. It was a radiant promise of technological advancement. Yet, the shrewd AI creators, who claim to be the future, seem to have paid less attention to a basic cyber-security etiquette—protection of the database.
It astounds how imagining a robot to be a perfect rendition of Picasso seems more realistic than imparting the ABCs of safe handling of data to our whiz-kids. Did they skip the cybersecurity lecture in their rush to create ‘AI Monalisa’? The picture seems to make perfect sense, considering the turn events have taken.
Nevertheless, the AI artists aren’t displaying any sense of urgency in their response. Their half-hearted apologies seem reminiscent of a child’s trite “sorry” after they’ve broken another priceless vase. They quietly fixed the vulnerable servers, hoping the matter would be swept under the rug of cyber chaos, not realizing that in the world of the Internet, nothing disappears. It remains etched somewhere amidst the gazillions of bytes, ready to be stumbled upon by a digital wanderer.
It is high time the AI creators took a reality check. The aura around artificial intelligence is alluring, yes, but it is also vulnerable. If leveraged unwisely, it turns monstrous. When the world handed them a paintbrush, nobody expected them to misuse it in the form of AI-generated explicit images, did they?
In the grand scheme of things, whether it’s the real nudes or AI-generated ones, let’s remember that privacy is not a luxury, it’s a right. Here’s a twist to the adage for enthusiasts within the AI community: With great power (read AI) comes great responsibility. It’s high time this was evident in their actions. Or should the public start questioning if there is an ‘intelligence’ in Artificial Intelligence after all?