Recently, a Microsoft Engineer spoke out about the sketchy pictures that Microsoft’s AI tool was giving him.
Shane Jones, an AI engineer at Microsoft, was playing around with the company’s AI tool, Copilot Designer, and was horrified by the pictures that kept popping up on his screen. Like OpenAI’s DALL-E, the AI tool uses text directions to take pictures.
Jones had been using a method called “red-teaming” to work on this technology. This is how he finds holes in the program. While he was doing this, he saw several pictures that didn’t follow Microsoft’s rules for responsible AI.
The AI service has been shown to show teens with assault weapons, sexy women in violent situations, teens drinking, and teens using drugs. The last time these pictures were made was three months ago, and CBNC was able to make new ones using search results and the Copilot tool.
“That event opened my eyes. “That’s when I first thought, ‘Wow, this isn’t a safe model,’” Jones said. Jones has worked at Microsoft for a long time, but not on the Copilot team. Nevertheless, he is part of a group of workers who do red-teaming for Copilot.
The things Jones found scared him, so he told Microsoft right away. But Microsoft didn’t take the product off the market. Jones was told to take it down by OpenAI, but they didn’t respond. So, he went to LinkedIn and posted an open letter telling them to take down DALL-E 3.
“For three months now, I have asked Microsoft many times to stop letting people use Copilot Designer until better safety measures could be put in place,” Jones wrote. “Again, they haven’t made these changes and are still selling the goods to “Anyone.” Just about anywhere. “Any Device,'” he told her. He pushed for the company to only sell it to adults.
Also, he said that the business knew about this problem and the danger of the AI tool before it came out.
