Microsoft Copilot Designer Reportedly Generated Inappropriate AI Images

March 6, 2024

An incident involving Microsoft's Copilot Designer, an AI image generator, has been reported to produce content that includes sex, violence, bias, and other inappropriate images. Despite the engineer's concerns and suggestions for improvements, the tool remains accessible publicly, resulting in a letter being sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). This incident underscores the importance of establishing safe and secure AI practices and governance through platforms like HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM (Govern). JOIN US to contribute to harm prevention and guardrails for AI.

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Alleged deployer: microsoft
Alleged developer: microsoft
Alleged harmed parties: general-public, minors

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/654

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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