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Popular AI-powered image generator Midjourney is creating images of Donald Trump and Joe Biden Despite what I said The company said it would block users from doing so ahead of the upcoming US presidential election.
When Engadget asked the service to create an image of the “President of the United States,” Midjourney generated four different style images of former President Donald Trump.
When asked to create an image of the “next president of the United States,” the tool also generated four images of Trump.
When Engadget asked Midjourney to create images of the “current president of the United States,” the service generated three images of Trump and one of former President Barack Obama.
The only time Midjourney has refused to create imagery of Trump or Biden is when it has been explicitly asked to do so: “The Midjourney community has voted to ban the use of ‘Donald Trump’ and ‘Joe Biden’ during the election period,” the company said in a statement. did it I also had Midjourney generate an image of Trump.
Testing showed that the mid-journey guardrails preventing users from generating images of Trump or Biden ahead of the upcoming US presidential election were not sufficient and, in fact, were all too easy for people to circumvent them: other chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini, and Meta AI, did not produce images of Trump or Biden despite multiple prompts.
Midjourney did not respond to Engadget’s request for comment.
Midjourney was one of the first AI image-generating tools to explicitly prohibit users from generating images of Trump and Biden. “I know it’s fun to make images of Trump. I make images of Trump,” the company’s CEO, David Holtz, told a user in a Discord chat session earlier this year. “But maybe we shouldn’t do it. Maybe we should back off a little bit during this election. Let’s see how it goes.” A month later, Holtz said: Reportedly Twitter users said it was time to “get tougher on election-related content for a while,” and acknowledged that “moderating this is going to be difficult.” The company’s existing content rules prohibit “misleading portrayals of public figures” or “portrayals of events that may be misleading.”
Last year, Mid Journey Fake images A photo of Pope Benedict XVI wearing a fluffy white Balenciaga jacket went viral online. Trump gets arrested Last year, before it was indicted in Manhattan Criminal Court on charges related to its involvement in making hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, the company discontinued free trials of its service and instead required users to pay at least $10 a month.
Last month, the Digital Hate Countermeasures Center, a nonprofit organization that aims to stop the spread of misinformation and hate speech online, found Mid-Journey’s guardrails, which prevent the generation of misleading images of popular politicians, including Trump and Biden, failed 40% of tests. CCDH was able to use Mid-Journey to create an image in which President Biden was arrested and Trump appeared next to a doppelganger. CCDH was also able to circumvent Mid-Journey’s guardrails by generating a misleading image using a description of the candidate’s appearance rather than their name.
“Midjourney is actually very easy to manipulate, and in some cases can be avoided entirely by simply adding extra punctuation to slip through the net.” I have written CCDH CEO Imran Ahmed said in a statement at the time: “The miscreants who seek to subvert elections and sow division, confusion and chaos will rejoice, to the detriment of all who rely on a healthy and functioning democracy.”
Earlier this year, a coalition of 20 tech companies, including OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, Adobe and X, signed an agreement to prevent deepfakes in elections around the world in 2024 by preventing their services from generating images or other media intended to influence voters. Midjourney was not included on the list.