Canary in the Data Mine: the Case for Data Filtration Transparency

[ Note: this is written in a op-ed style to be a writing sample. ] In November 2023, Stanford researcher David Thiel made a startling discovery . The popular text-to-image AI model, Stable Diffusion 1.5, had been trained on a dataset containing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). His discovery sparked a public outcry. Forbes and CNN wrote negative articles, and the non-profit which hosted the…