The programmers used real kiddie porn to develop their software? Did I get that right? and isn’t this Actionable?
The ‘programmers’ of neural networks and related software are, most likely, not involved in the day to day activities that surround gathering datasets, measuring in the billions of documents and images, used to ‘train’ the neural network.
There’s probably a small army of folks collecting resources to be used. The odds of some pedo perv being one of them is high - I’m sure they couldn’t resist putting some of these pictures into the dataset.
That said, there *might* be the one legitimate reason for doing it - so AI can automatically scan the internet for such imagery and be able to identify it. It has generally taken humans (police) to sort through porn and determine if something is flagged. I knew an officer that spearheaded a team years back to do this. He has the PTSD to prove it. If there’s a way to do this in a more automated manner then I’d welcome it.
...not that I’d put money on that being the reason.