Subj : Figma takes down its AI design tool after an embarrassing copying
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Jul 03 2024 12:45:05

Figma takes down its AI design tool after an embarrassing copying incident

Date:
Wed, 03 Jul 2024 11:38:56 +0000

Description:
After creating an app suspiciously similar to Apples Weather offering, Figma 
has taken Make Design offline.

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Figma has temporarily disabled its new AI-powered design tool, Make Design, 
following accusations that it was replicating designs from Apples Weather 
app. 

The issue was highlighted by NotBoring Software founder Andy Allen on X who 
discovered that the tool was producing designs remarkably similar to that of 
the Weather app on iOS. 

Allen took to the social media platform to raise concerns about Figmas tool 
being heavily trained on existing apps, something that Figma CEO Dylan Field 
denied. Figma AI design tool taken offline 

Having created three separate prompts, each with the same results, Allen 
concluded that the design tool had copied the Apple Weather app. 

In response, Field shared : the Make Design feature is not trained on Figma 
content, community files or app designs. 

Field blamed low variability from the off-the-shelf LLMs and commissioned 
design systems for the error, noting that the tool has been temporarily 
disabled until the company can stand behind its output. 

Make Design, introduced at Figmas recent Config conference , generated user 
interface layouts and components from text prompts. Promoted as a tool to 
help developers quickly draft and explore design ideas, Allens findings 
suggest that the tool may inadvertently reproduce existing app designs, 
raising a whole host of legal and ethical concerns. 

Beyond Fields comments, Figma has not shared any further information, and its 
unclear how long the tool will be offline for. Apple has not commented on the 
matter. 

A signal to the broader concerns around generative AI, Allen said that 
designers using such tools should thoroughly check existing apps or modify 
the results so that [they] dont unknowingly land [themselves] in legal 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/figma-takes-down-its-ai-design-tool-after-an-emb
arrassing-copying-incident


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