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Wednesday, one week after Figma share The company was developing Make Design, an AI generator that prompts you to create designs, but decided to pause the tool after it created what appeared to be a direct copy of Apple’s iOS weather app.
Andy Allen, founder of NotBoring Software and one of its early users was invited Test your design first Flagged Regarding issue X on Monday.
When Allen tried the “weather app” prompt on Make Designs, the AI tool returned three results that looked identical to Apple’s weather app for the iPhone.
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Other prompts Allen triedKeywords like “exciting, interesting, most fun weather app, 3D, real-time rendering, playful colors, clever interactions, gestures, clean typography” gave the same results.
He noted that the Figma AI appears to be heavily trained on existing apps. Said Designers use this feature to “thoroughly check existing apps” to avoid legal trouble.
The Figma AI appears to be heavily trained on existing apps.
Here’s a “weather app” using the new Make Designs feature, and the results are essentially the same as Apple’s weather app (left): I tried it three times, with the same results. https://t.co/Ij20OpPCer pic.twitter.com/psFTV6daVD
— Andy Allen (@asallen) July 1, 2024
Figma CEO Dylan Field stated On Tuesday, the company said Allen’s claims about training data were “false” and that Make Design had “not received any training on Figma content, community files or app design.”
If the AI tool wasn’t designed based on an existing app, how did it know to so closely mimic Apple’s weather app? According to Field, the problem wasn’t with the training data, but with the system the AI tool was designed in.
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma. Photo by David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Figma CTO Chris Rasmussen had this to say about the controversy: Tuesday’s Interview In an interview with The Verge, Rasmussen said he couldn’t say for sure, instead of outright denying that Make Design was trained on any other app, and added that Figma wasn’t involved in training the AI behind the tool.
“We don’t do training as part of our generative AI capabilities,” Rasmussen told the magazine. Echoed About X.
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Rasmussen revealed that OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Amazon’s Titan Image Generator G1 are the two main AI models behind Make Design.
OpenAI and Amazon It has been accused of using copyrighted works to train its models.
Field said Make Design will be available again once the Figma team has conducted full quality assurance testing of the design system. Repulsion Designers have criticised the move, saying it could lead to job losses.
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