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Microsoft Copilot's Design AI Image creator was reportedly generating violent and harmful images using prompts like 'pro life' and 'pro choice', but the tech giant is now blocking them.
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) —A Microsoft engineer is sounding alarms about offensive and harmful imagery he says is too easily made by the company's
Blocked terms include “pro choice” and “pro life,” CNBC reported on Friday. The company made changes after one of its engineers complained to the Federal Trade Commission about the safety of its DALLE-3-powered Copilot Designer AI image generator. Recently, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promised to improve Copilot’s guardrails after explicit, Copilot-created images of Taylor Swift spread on X in January.
The move comes after a Microsoft engineer wrote a letter to the FTC earlier this week to say that Copilot Designer bypasses guardrails to prevent the generation of harmful images.
Tests on generative AI tools found some continue to allow the creation of deceptive images related to political candidates and voting, an NGO warned in a report, amid a busy year of high-stake elections around the world. The non-profit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) tested various AI models with…