AI firm considers banning creation of political images for 2024 elections

By: Edward Helmore

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Midjourney’s CEO David Holz says company close to ‘hammering’ images of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and others ‘for next 12 months’ The groundbreaking artificial intelligence image-generating company Midjourney [https://www.midjourney.com/home] is considering banning people from using its software to make political images of Joe Biden and Donald Trump as part of an effort to avoid being used to distract from or misinform about the 2024 US presidential election. “I don’t know how much I care about political speech for the next year for our platform,” Midjourney’s CEO, David Holz, said last week, adding that the company is close to “hammering” – or banning – political images, including those of the leading presidential candidates, “for the next 12 months”. Continue reading... [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/10/ai-political-images-ban-trump-biden-midjourney]