OTTAWA — A Canadian organization focused on combatting the spread of child sex abuse images says a new analysis has found the presence of such images in a dataset used to train AI models.

The Canadian Centre for Child Protection said the findings include images of more than 120 victims across Canada and the United States and raise serious ethical concerns when it comes to the development of AI technologies.

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“Many of the AI models used to support features in applications and research initiatives have been trained on data that has been collected indiscriminately or in ethically questionable ways,” Lloyd Richardson, the Winnipeg-based centre’s director of technology, said in a news release issued on Wednesday.

“This lack of due diligence has led to the appearance of kno

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