Mickey Mouse smoking: How AI image tools are generating new content-moderation problems
Live MintOne shows Mickey Mouse drinking a beer. These visuals are among the many bizarre and sometimes disturbingly vivid images spawned by new tools from Google and Elon Musk’s xAI that are generating a debate about how—and whether—tech companies can control the output of cutting-edge AI image-making software. The artificial-intelligence image generators are testing the boundaries of the platforms’ policies and the ability of companies to put effective guardrails around public use of this powerful new visual technology. His image generator, which is powered by a German startup called Black Forest Labs and only available to paying subscribers on the X social-media platform, has produced images of politicians in compromising or unsavory situations and others of copyrighted characters such as Mickey Mouse doing offensive things like saluting Adolf Hitler. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said it was unacceptable that Gemini’s outputs had offended users and shown bias, and that the company would “fix it at scale."
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Elon Musk’s new image generation tool hit by wave of outrage over pictures it produces
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X’s chatbot can now generate AI images. A lack of guardrails raises election concerns
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