Research laboratory Midjourney has to halt free trials of its AI image-generation software after users produce countless realistic deep fakes images including of former United States president Donald Trump getting arrested and Pope Francis in a puffer jacket.
AI’s Midjourney responded to a request on Thursday for a trial with a message saying it could not be provided and to try again another day. The imagery created using the artificial intelligence platform, specifically, those of Trump and the pope which went viral, has put a spotlight on the San Francisco-based lab.
Due to a combination of extraordinary demand and trial abuse we are temporarily disabling free trials until we have our next improvements to the system deployed.”
David Holz- Midjourney founder said in a post this week on the company’s Discord channel.
The image generator generates realistic-looking images based on written prompts made by software users. It launched in trial mode in mid-2022, with the independent lab consistently upgrading the software.
Midjourney’s users have hailed a freshly released version of Midjourney for improved realism in generating images. Along with setting the brakes on new free trials, Midjourney also banned specific words, such as “arrested,” from being used to produce image creation.
On Thursday Midjourney denied a proposal by AFP to generate an image of the former president being arrested in front of Trump Tower in New York.
The word ‘arrested’ is banned. Circumventing this filter to violate our rules may result in your access being revoked.”
a message from Midjourney stated.
Billionaire tycoon and Twitter owner Elon Musk and a range of experts called on Wednesday for a halt in the development of powerful artificial intelligence systems to allow time to make sure they are safe.
An open letter, signed by more than 1,000 people so far including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, was prompted by the release of the artificial intelligence platform GPT-4 from Microsoft-backed company OpenAI.
Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who signed the letter, alerted during a virtual press conference in Montreal that society is not ready for this powerful AI tool and its possible misuse.
Let’s slow down. Let’s make sure that we develop better guardrails.”
Yoshua Bengio said.
