The CEO of Figma, Dylan Field, says that the company Temporarily deactivate its “make design” AI function It is said to tear the conceptions of Apple’s weather application. The problem was the first spotted by Andy Allen, the founder of Software notbortinga continuation of applications which includes a popular, Skinable weather application and other public services. He found by testing the FIGMA tool that he would repeatedly reproduce Apple’s weather application when used as design aid.
Allen had taken to xFormerly Twitter, to accuse Figma of “strongly” forming its tool on existing applications – an accusation field now.
The design functionality is available in Figma software and will generate arrangements and components of the user interface (user interface) from text prompts. “Simply describe what you need, and the functionality will provide you with a first project,” is the way the company explained when launching the functionality.
The idea was that the developers could use the functionality to help quickly reduce their ideas to start exploring different design directions, then reaching a solution faster, Figma said.
The functionality was introduced to Figma configuration conference last weekWhere the company explained that it was not trained on Figma content, community files or application conceptions, field notes in its response to X.
“In other words, the accusations concerning data training in this tweet are false,” he said.
But in his haste to launch new AI features to remain competitive, the quality insurance work which should accompany new additions seems to have been neglected.
Mintillar of complaints in other industries, some designers immediately argued that Figma’s IA tools, such as design, would eliminate the work by providing a digital design on the mass market, while other against This AI would simply help to eliminate a large part of the repetitive work which has been devoted to design, allowing more interesting ideas to emerge.
Allen discovery The fact that Figma mainly seemed to copy other applications aroused increased concern among the design community.
“Just a head to all designers using the new Make Designs feature that you may want to carefully check the existing applications or strongly modify the results so as not to unconsciously land in legal difficulty,” warned Allen on X.
Field replied by clarifying that the design uses models of large standard languages, combined with “the systems that we have ordered to be used by these models”. He said that the problem with this approach is that variability is too low.
“In the hours following the sight of the tweet (Allen), we identified the problem, which was linked to the underlying design systems that were created,” wrote Field on X. “In the end, it is my fault not to insist on a better process of AQ for this work and push our team to strike a deadline for the configuration.”
Apple was not immediately available to comment. Figma underlined the Field tweets as his statement on the issue.
Field says that Figma will temporarily deactivate the manufacturing design function until the team is convinced that it can “support its outing”. The feature will be deactivated Tuesday and will not be reactivated as long as Figma has completed a complete QA pass on the underlying design system of the functionality.