Midjourney, an image creation platform that uses artificial intelligence to generate unique and personalized illustrations, had its test version on Discord suspended. The reason for the closure of the open edition was after a series of deepfakes produced. Understand!
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Artificial Intelligence can generate bizarre images. Among them is a photo of Pope Francis wearing a long white puffer coat, along with his traditional zucchetto and a crucifix on his chest. In addition to this, another image of the leader of the Catholic Church holding a gun also circulates on the web.
Last Tuesday (28), the CEO and founder of Midjourney, David Holz, announced the change, but did not confirm the reason, citing only "extraordinary demand and abuse in tests", according to the The Washington Post.
Free version of Midjourney suspended
Midjourney was open to anyone on Discord, with free access to 25 generations of free images before starting a subscription. The basic plan offers up to 200 image generations for US$ 8 (R$ 41) per month, an affordable price when taking into account the possibilities of the tool.
Experts were already warning about the potential risk of AI producing disinformation, even before it was launched. At the time, Holz defended that fakes were easily detectable, "you can't force him to do a deepfake now", said the executive of the The Verge.
However, after the independent laboratory launched version 5 of the tool on March 15, several improvements were made to the quality of images, favoring the dissemination of deepfakes.
Deepfakes are fakes fingerprints highly realistic images of visual or audio content that have been manipulated using algorithms Artificial intelligence (IA). Deepfakes can be used to create fake videos, images or audio recordings that look real and often feature real people saying or doing things they never did.
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