AI that can't decide if an image it generates is appropriate?

AI that doesn't understand copyright rules?

I can understand the argument that young(?) children shouldn't have unfettered access.

On the other hand, what's next? Banning pencils and paper? 🤔

Reminds me a little bit about how major comic book companies sued the online super-hero game "City of Heroes" because players could make costumes of copyrighted characters. I forget whether the case was lost or just plain thrown out when it was pointed out that people could also do the same thing with tracing paper and crayons...

The real problem (which is literally more than a century old) is that technology is evolving faster than our ability to handle it responsibly...

there are six fingers.

should have lost. Especially if they were profiting from the game. The comparison to tracing paper and crayons would have been valid only for private copying, not commercial.

My memory was faulty. While the judge dismissed large portions of the lawsuit for various reasons, the remaining issues were settled out of court. As usual, terms of the settlement were undisclosed, but the game was allowed to continue. There has been speculation that the whole lawsuit was started not because they were truly affronted, but because US copyright law is very screwy, and they might have lost their copyright if they hadn’t asserted it.

Here’s an article about the lawsuit:
https://massivelyop.com/2019/11/22/lawful-neutral-when-marvel-sued-ncsoft-over-city-of-heroes/

AI doesn't have a well-rounded education. It is being fed from the Internet and apparently no one involved is interrupting its feedback loop.

The algorhythms, the learning, all that, was created by human programmers who either had no conception of the real world or just didn't care because the money was awesome. Yes it's taken off on its own, but it started with humans.

Paging Dr. Frankenstein.

to be a responsible user and not ask AI to create video or images that may be naughty.

Going to work just as well as 'responsible' gun ownership suggestions do.

And I use it regularly.

Violent or sexual images are not allowed on it.

I just made this picture at Bing Image Creator for this post.

Link to tweet

for the training data making it fundamentally unethical and probably illegal.

CNBC was able to duplicate the sorts of problems described in the OP, as the article explains.

So was tech site Tomshardware.com:

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-engineer-begs-ftc-to-stop-copilots-offensive-image-generator-our-tests-confirm-its-a-serious-problem

And Copilot Designer was apparently used to create the Taylor Swift deepfake porn that got a lot of media attention recently:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052196/satya-nadella-microsoft-ai-taylor-swift-fakes-response

of that stuff out there - and probably both scraped MLP fan art and genuine Hasbro images were ripped off for training datasets for the image generator you're using - it's still copyright infringement and Hasbro has been known to have its legal department send cease-and-desist letters.

I don't know if you specifically requested MLP-style artwork. Image generators tend to regurgitate lots of copyrighted images without being specifically asked for them.