DALL-E

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Incidents and issues 🔥

• Accuracy: DALLE's ability to produce illogical and incomprehensible content, especially when presented with longer prompts.

• Bias: DALL-E exhibits and reinforces biases, including gender, racial and cultural stereotyping.

• IP/copyright: DALL-E produces content that copies existing artwork, and is reckoned to abuse copyright and trademarks. In November 2023, Disney cracked down on Microsoft's DALL-E-powered AI image creator system after users created posters featuring their dogs as the stars of Pixar Studio films, violating the media company's intellectual property.

• Employment: DALL-E's will kill the careers of artists, graphic designers, animators, anime cartoonists, food photographers and others.

• Environment: Generative models like DALL-E typically consume huge amounts of energy.

• Mis/disinformation: Having stopped users uploading and editing human facial images in order to minimise the generation of deepfakes, OpenAI'S decision to reintroduce this ability has fueled concerns that it is much easier to use DALL-E to generate and spread mis and disinformation. UC Berkeley researcher Henry Farid reckons DALL-E 'could be disinformation on steroids'.

• Privacy: OpenAI is trained on photographs and other images images publicly available on the internet without consent. Furthermore, the company's decision to reintroduce the ability to upload third-party faces is seen to potentially damage the privacy of people whose consent may not have been obtained.

• Safety: DALL-E can produce offensive or explicit content, as well as content that can be construed as harrassment or bullying.