AI tool Midjourney stops free trial after fake images of Trump getting arrested, Pope in puffy jacket go viral
1 year, 11 months ago

AI tool Midjourney stops free trial after fake images of Trump getting arrested, Pope in puffy jacket go viral

India Today  

If you have seen outrageous images of US President Donald Trump getting arrested, Pope wandering in a puffy jacket, you must know that those images were not real but created using AI tool Midjourney. However, it was percived that the pause was linked to the viral images of Trump getting arrested and Pope in a puffy jacket. Along with Trump, the realistic images of President Emmanuel Macron walking through the ongoing protests in Paris and Elon Musk holding hands with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, were also going viral on the internet. Midjourney needs to do more to address the threat of fake images on its platform and that its moderation policies may need to be updated and made more consistent with other similar services.

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AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms
1 year ago

AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms

Associated Press  

Follow live: Updates from AP’s coverage of the presidential election. 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. Attempts by AP journalists to test Midjourney’s new policy on Wednesday …

Photos of this world leader banned on AI image generator Midjourney. Here's why
1 year, 11 months ago

Photos of this world leader banned on AI image generator Midjourney. Here's why

Hindustan Times  

Recently, pictures of Pope Francis in a swaggy puffer jacket, and Donald Trump’s ‘arrest,’ went viral on social media. These were created on Midjourney, an AI image generator developed by San Francisco-based independent research lab Midjourney Inc, and the company allows users to generate real-looking fake pictures of world leaders, including US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir …

AI image maker Midjourney stops free trials
1 year, 11 months ago

AI image maker Midjourney stops free trials

The Hindu  

The AI-powered text-to-image generator Midjourney said it is stopping free trials due to the rising number of people creating disposable accounts in order to generate images without paying for them. The news comes as hyper realistic images generated with Midjourney went viral on Twitter, as users mistook them for photos of true media events. Another text-to-image generator, DALL-E, which was …

Trump, the Pope and Yoda: the rise of Midjourney’s fake images
1 year, 11 months ago

Trump, the Pope and Yoda: the rise of Midjourney’s fake images

The Independent  

The AI image generator Midjourney has quickly become one of the internet’s most eye-catching tools, creating realistic-looking fake visuals of former president Donald Trump being arrested and Pope Francis wearing a stylish coat, with the aim of “expanding the imaginative powers of the human species”. “We just want to minimise drama,” the company’s founder and CEO, David Holz, said last …

AI platform Midjourney bans journalist who created Trump's fake images of getting arrested
1 year, 11 months ago

AI platform Midjourney bans journalist who created Trump's fake images of getting arrested

Firstpost  

AI-generated images of Donald Trump getting arrested went viral on Twitter. Higgins told Buzzfeed that he knows why Midjourney may have banned him, claiming that making the popular Twitter post was “pushing my luck.” Higgins told Ars that while the pictures have received mostly favourable reactions, he is also receiving “quite a few angry” Trump supporters. “I had no intention …

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