MIT's New Method Flags AI Models Trained on CASM Without Generating It
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A method to detect models trained on child abuse imagery without recreating it is a concrete advance in AI forensics and governance. If you deploy or procure models at scale, build the expectation that third-party audits for tainted training data will become part of standard due diligence.
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