Midjourney Preventing Users From Creating Fake Images Of US Politicians.
Midjourney , the popular AI text to image generator has started to prevent its users from creating fake images of USA President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump ahead of the upcoming US presidential election, according to tests of the AI tool by The Associated Press.
According to the associated press, users who did try to create fake images of Donald trump or current USA president Joe Biden were met with a ‘banned prompt detected’ warning.
With the election in full swing, it’s time to “put some foots down on election-related stuff for a bit,” Midjourney CEO David Holz told several hundred members of the service’s devoted userbase in a digital office hours event Wednesday.
Holz said that “this moderation stuff is kind of hard, but he did not specifically clarify what policy changes were being made but described the clampdown as a temporary measure to make sure that people do not abuse the tool.
Holz further said that “I don’t really care about political speech,” Holz said Wednesday. “That’s not the purpose of Midjourney. It’s not that interesting to me. That said, I also don’t want to spend all of my time trying to police political speech. So, we’re going to have put…
