VentureBeat October 4, 2023
Well, that didn’t take long: Just a week after Meta announced a “universe of AI” for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, the company’s new AI-generated stickers are already causing controversy.
Some users have already received an update allowing them to quickly create AI-generated stickers from text prompts in Facebook Messenger and Instagram Messenger. However, it seems that Meta’s filters to block objectionable or questionable content are not catching everything, allowing for all sorts of interesting mashups, such as copyrighted children’s characters like Mickey Mouse being shown smoking a marijuana cigar (blunt), or Winnie the Pooh (whose copyright term just ended) holding a rifle.
Artist Pier-Olivier Desbiens posted on X this evening, immediately garnering hundreds of thousands of views and comments with...
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