AI -generating features are quickly deployed in a wide range of popular creative software. Maybe sometimes a little too quickly. It certainly seems that Figma could have made some additional checks before launching its Make Design AI tool.
The user interface design design platform, which we assess as Best user interface design tooldisabled the new tool after being noted to reproduce the user interface apparently from existing applications, including the Apple Weather application for iOS. He hopes to reactivate the functionality soon, but the latter controversy involving a large software developer highlights the risk of rushing on AI tools, and he can prevent creatives from using them for fear of being accused of having copied the work of others.
The design of FIGMA manufacturing is an AI -based tool which is intended to allow users to create fast user interface models. Software CEO not boring Andy Allen Screenshots published on Xshowing that the tool would release a user interface design for a meteorological application which was almost identical to the existing Apple application for iOS.
“Just a head towards 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. It could be said that weather applications are a large part, but comparison side by side has strange similarities.
The CEO of Figma, Dylan Field, quickly announced on x that the tool had temporarily been handicapped and blamed for having pushed his team to do so quickly. However, Figma could not completely reject the complaint that the design was to copy the existing UIS because it does not know how the tool was formed.
The CTO of Figma Kris Rasmussen said Jay Peters of the penis On Tuesday, the company did not know how the generator was formed because it was done by a supplier, which delivered “standard models and a tailor -made design system”. On X, Rasmussen wrote: “We examine to what extent the similarities are a function of third -party models that we use in relation to the design systems that we have ordered to be used by models and we will approach if necessary.”
It seems that these standard models are the OPENAI GPT-4O and the Amazon G1 Titan image generator, which raises questions about their training and how they can affect other tools that use them. Figma stressed that no content FIGMA, community files or application conceptions have been used to form the model. He also noted that the design is in beta version, while Field suggested that the problem is that the “variability” of the output is too low. He said Figma hopes to reactivate the tool soon.
However, some users say that the answer is far from reassuring. It is difficult for users to be convinced that they can safely use an AI tool without risk of legal problems if even Figma does not know how the tool has been formed and if it could be to be copied directly from existing user interface designs. Other users wonder if its use will lead to a kind of creative convergence, the products looking more similar, because they are all copied from the average of existing conceptions.
Meanwhile, Figma introduced its own AI training policies, which users have until August 15 to opt in or out of (default, starting and professional plans are in and business and business plans are extinguished, but users can change the default choice.) This suggests that the company could plan to improve the design or develop more IA tools using additional training on user content.
To find out more about Figma, see the news of the new WIX studio Figma plugin And our interview with the CEO Dylan Field on Figma ui3.
