Several employees made a significant effort to check for and cull any CSAM. But after some discussion, the employees left in other types of sexual images, in part because they felt such content was part of the human experience. Keeping such photos in the training data, however, meant the model would still be able to produce synthetic CSAM. In the same way DALL-E could generate an avocado armchair having only ever seen avocados and armchairs, DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 could do the same thing with children and porn for child pornography, a capability known as “compositional generation.”
