Midjourney Research Lab has suspended free trials of software for
Images created using the artificial intelligence platform, especially images of Trump and the pontiff that went viral, drew attention to the San Francisco laboratory.
These images of Pope Francis in a down jacket are fake and created by artificial intelligence.
Photo: r/midjourney subreddit
"Due to a combination of extreme demandand abuse of trial versions, we are temporarily disabling free trials until we have the following system improvements deployed,” David Holtz, founder of Midjourney, said this week in a company post on the Discord channel.
The service creates realistic imagesbased on written requests from users. It was launched in test mode in mid-2022, and an independent laboratory constantly updated the software. Users have praised the recently released version of Midjourney for improving the realism of the images it produces.
Along with suspending new free trials, Midjourney has banned the use of certain words, such as “arrest,” to prompt the creation of images.
Billionaire tycoon and Twitter owner Elon Musk andSeveral experts have called for the development of powerful artificial intelligence systems to be paused to allow time to ensure their safety. The open letter, signed by more than 1,000 people to date, including Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, comes after the release of the GPT-4 artificial intelligence platform from Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
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Cover image: Pope Francis in a down jacket is fake and created by artificial intelligence
Photo: r/midjourney subreddit