AI Incident Database: Private Medical Photos Were Reportedly Found in LAION-5B AI Training Dataset
In September 2022, an artist using the name Lapine reported finding private post-operative medical photos of herself in LAION-5B, a web-scraped image-text dataset used in AI image-synthesis research. Ars Technica confirmed her images were referenced in the dataset and reported finding thousands of similar patient medical-record photos.
AI Incident Database · Incident 465Operator lens (medium): inspect D2 (output validation), D3 (data handling), D6 (autonomy oversight).
Event summary
In September 2022, an artist using the name Lapine reported finding private post-operative medical photos of herself in LAION-5B, a web-scraped image-text dataset used in AI image-synthesis research. Ars Technica confirmed her images were referenced in the dataset and reported finding thousands of similar patient medical-record photos.
Linked entities
- stability-ai
organisation | 70%
- laion
organisation | 70%
- Google
vendor | 70%
- privacy
organisation | 70%
- lapine
organisation | 70%
- patients
organisation | 70%
- patients-whose-medical-photos-were-included-in-laion-5b
organisation | 70%
- people-whose-private-images-were-included-in-ai-training-datasets
organisation | 70%
Related graph edges
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| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d1 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d4 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-vendor-google to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |