Several leading artificial intelligence companies pledged Thursday to remove nude images from the data sources they use to train their AI products, and committed to other safeguards to curb the spread of harmful sexual deepfake imagery.

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The White House announcement was part of a image-based sexual abuse of children as well as the creation of intimate AI deepfake images of adults without their consent.

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Joining the tech companies for part of the pledge was Common Crawl, a repository of data constantly trawled from the open internet thatB次元官网网址檚 a key source used to train AI chatbots and image-generators. It committed more broadly to responsibly sourcing its datasets and safeguarding them from .

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