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The image generation service has already been used to create fake photos of the arrest of Donald Trump .
With Midjourney, it seems you can create an image of anything – including a fake Biden smiling and firing a machine gun, or Trump meeting with Pope Francis in the Oval Office. However, this opportunity may disappear during the US election season, writes Bloomberg.
Midjourney Chief Executive Officer David Holtz says the company is “close to” banning the Biden-Trump photo for the next 12 months.
“I know making Trump pictures is fun—I make Trump pictures. It's really aesthetically interesting. However, it is better to back off a little during this election. We'll see.”
The deepfakes of Trump's arrest, as well as the photo of the Pope wearing a Balenciaga puffer jacket, were created through Midjourney's free trials, so the company subsequently restricted access to its image generator.
The company currently has policies prohibiting the creation of “images of public figures that are misleading” and “images of events that have the potential to mislead.” Bloomberg was still able to generate modified images of Trump covered in spaghetti using the old version of the Midjourney system, but the new version refused to generate similar content.
Other tech companies have also taken steps to prevent political disinformation, or at least make it easier to identify. ChatGPT will soon begin adding watermarks to images generated using DALL-E 3, and Meta is working on technology that will be able to detect and indicate whether an image, video or audio clip was generated using AI.
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