( August 13, 2026, 02:40 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: South Korea’s Board of Audit and Inspection has found serious gaps in the government’s management of artificial intelligence training-data projects after scrutinizing the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Personal Information Protection Commission and the National Information Society Agency. The auditor said in a report released Wednesday that the science ministry spent more than 1.6 trillion won ($1.1 billion) between 2017 and 2024 to build 908 datasets, but weak inter-agency coordination led to overlapping projects, including a PIPC oral-image dataset whose 1,000 images were all similar in training subject to part of a ministry dataset. It also found uneven quality controls, including public datasets that were difficult or impossible to use for AI training because of annotation and file-matching errors. The auditor told the science ministry to strengthen pre-project coordination and common quality standards, and the NIA to improve post-project maintenance.Statement and report are attached (in Korean)....
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