Syrian rights and civil society groups, as well as Human Rights Watch, have reported that SNA factions are still detaining, extorting and torturing Kurdish civilians in northern Syria with impunity.

Over 170 images and personal details of children from Brazil have been repurposed by an open-source dataset without their knowledge or consent, and used to train AI, claims a new report from Human ...

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) continues to reveal how photos of real children casually posted online years ago are being used to train AI models powering image generators—even when platforms prohibit ...