In new research out today, Human Rights Watch has revealed that personal photos of Australian children are being used to create powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools without the knowledge or consent of the children or their families.

One hundred and ninety photos of Australian children scraped from the internet have been included in the datasets used by several AI image-generating tools including Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI and Midjourney, which in turn can be used to create malicious deepfakes that Human Rights Watch says puts even more children at risk of exploitation and harm.

Guest: Hye Jung Han, researcher and advocate in the Children's Rights Division