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Ethically sourced Lena: https://mortenhannemose.github.io/lena/

There are plenty of alternatives, as well of several calls for using them. For example you can't use Lena in any Nature journal, and they suggest ‘Cameraman’, ‘Mandril’ or ‘Peppers’.

In other words, there is practically speaking a well established alternative, and the remaining task is to badger all the holdouts into switching.

scikit image replaced lenna with a picture of astronaut Eileen Collins: https://scikit-image.org/docs/stable/api/skimage.data.html#s...

If everyone decided to discuss that then it sounds like they are dealing with it in a collective manner.

And I think it's a little ignorant to suggest that the issue is lack of an alternative. How about just don't use it? Or take a photo of your own kid and upload it

Demonstrations like this used various images forever.