{"id":13601,"date":"2024-03-06T22:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/microsoft-ignored-safety-problems-with-ai-image-generator-engineer-complains\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T22:37:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:37:15","slug":"microsoft-ignored-safety-problems-with-ai-image-generator-engineer-complains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/microsoft-ignored-safety-problems-with-ai-image-generator-engineer-complains\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ignored safety problems with AI image generator, engineer complains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Jones said he warned management about the lack of safeguards several times, but it didn\u2019t result in any action<\/p>\n<p>An artificial intelligence engineer at Microsoft published a letter Wednesday alleging that the company\u2019s AI image generator lacks basic safeguards against creating violent and sexualized images. In the letter, engineer Shane Jones states that his repeated attempts to warn Microsoft management about the problems failed to result in any action. Jones said he sent the message to the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternally the company is well aware of systemic issues where the product is creating harmful images that could be offensive and inappropriate for consumers,\u201d Jones states in the letter, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7171135079702753280\/\">published on LinkedIn<\/a>. He lists his title as \u201cprincipal software engineering manager\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/06\/microsoft-ai-explicit-image-safety\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9e4118dc065eee0fe9f0668bbb3e7cbc854d1954\/0_397_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=11aa61d16c7276ff2aaf006e977098f2\" title=\"Microsoft ignored safety problems with AI image generator, engineer complains\" \/>Shane Jones said he warned management about the lack of safeguards several times, but it didn\u2019t result in any action<br \/>\nAn artificial intelligence engineer at Microsoft published a letter Wednesday alleging that the company\u2019s AI image generator lacks basic safeguards against creating violent and sexualized images. In the letter, engineer Shane Jones states that his repeated attempts to warn Microsoft management about the problems failed to result in any action. Jones said he sent the message to the Federal Trade Commission and Microsoft\u2019s board of directors.<br \/>\n\u201cInternally the company is well aware of systemic issues where the product is creating harmful images that could be offensive and inappropriate for consumers,\u201d Jones states in the letter, which he published on LinkedIn. He lists his title as \u201cprincipal software engineering manager\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shane Jones said he warned management about the lack of safeguards several times, but it didn\u2019t result in any action An artificial intelligence engineer at Microsoft published a letter Wednesday alleging that the company\u2019s AI image generator lacks basic safeguards against creating violent and sexualized images. In the letter, engineer Shane Jones states that his &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/06\/microsoft-ignored-safety-problems-with-ai-image-generator-engineer-complains\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft ignored safety problems with AI image generator, engineer complains<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}