Users of Openai's DALL-E program are able to modify images with human faces. This feature was previously off-limits due to fears of misuse, but, in a letter sent to DALL-E's million-plus users, Openai says it's opening up access after improving its filters to remove images that contain "sexual, political, and violent" content
Users will be able to change images in a variety of ways. They can change the appearance of someone's clothing or hairstyle by uploading a photograph of them. Many users in the creative industries will benefit from the feature.
DALLE is now ready to support these delightful and important use cases with improvements in the safety system.
The makers of artificial intelligence art generators are trying to navigate the technology's potential harms as they negotiate with their own users. Openai is a well-funded company with links to tech giants like Microsoft. The company has been outflanked by rivals who place less restrictions on users. The quicker the technology is developed, the easier it is for malicious applications to be created. Stable Diffusion is being used to generate pornography.
The material should be easy to block with DALL-E. Users are forbidden from uploading images of people without their permission in the company's terms of use. There are harmful use- cases that are more subtle than nonconsensual pornography.