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Midjourney, an AI image generator that creates realistic deepfakes,<\/a> has been scrutinized recently for having a policy showing deference to China’s communist government.<\/p>\n

The company enforces a rule that users can generate fake images of world leaders from President Biden to Vladimir Putin, but not Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a year-old message on the chat service Discord, the CEO of Midjourney, Inc. explained why the company has that rule.<\/p>\n

“I think we want to minimize drama,”\u00a0Midjourney CEO David Holz<\/a> wrote last summer. He explained that the company did not immediately ban images of Xi, but it was triggered by abuse from users.<\/p>\n

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“Political satire in China is pretty not-okay and at some point would endanger people in china from using the service,” he added.<\/p>\n

“I think people in China using this tech moves a needle in the world in general (in a positive direction),” Holz argued. “i think random people on here doing Chinese political satire does very little to add to anything.”<\/p>\n

The rule against creating deepfakes of Xi applies to all global users, not just those in China.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“We’re trying to be sensitive to different societies and cultures,” Holz said in August. “Political satire is pretty taboo in China and having a ton of people troll China with our system doesn’t help anyone.”<\/p>\n

Some users in the Discord group expressed frustration about being unable to create Xi-related images.<\/p>\n

“It sucks that the MidJourney creators are bowing to the dictator Xi Jinping,” one user wrote.<\/p>\n

“It makes me uncomfortable to see so many deepfake Biden and Trump on MJ yet nothing is done. Only Xi is blocked,” another commented.<\/p>\n

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Midjourney was released in 2022 and has 11 full-time staffers, according to its website. Fox News Digital reached out to Midjourney for a statement, but has not heard back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/tech\/ai-image-generator-midjourney-bans-deepfakes-china-xi-jinping-minimize-drama <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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