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Private Medical Photos Were Reportedly Found in LAION-5B AI Training Dataset
- Occurred
- Mar 3, 2022
- Published
- Sep 21, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
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.
Developers
- Stability AI
- LAION
Deployers
- Stability AI
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Lapine
- Patients
- Patients whose medical photos were included in LAION-5B
- People whose private images were included in AI training datasets
Classification
Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 85%
Rationale: Incident involves unauthorized use of private medical photos in AI training data without consent.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8