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After a brief period of reflection, Figma is reintroducing its new AI tool for application design. The output the tool initially generated looked a little too similar to
After a brief period of reflection, Figma is reintroducing its new AI tool for application design. The output the tool initially generated looked a little too similar to Apple’s designs.
Update 25.9.: After “extensive analysis, iterations and testing,” Figma has made its AI design tool available again in beta. The tool has been renamed First draft. Figma reiterates that the tool is based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 model and the Amazon Titan image generator. User designs are not used to train the models.
Original article 3/7: The design app Figma introduced a new design and related AI features last week. One of these features has now been taken offline for a while. The tool Make designs was intended to make it easier for users to create visual designs for applications, but the tool’s designs turned out to be anything but original.
This was addressed publicly by Andy Allen, CEO of No boring softwarea company that develops mobile applications for iOS. In a game of “find the seven differences,” he compared some designs for a weather application with those of Apple’s original weather app. After several attempts, the Figma tool continued to produce quasi-identical copies of Apple’s weather app.
It has been suggested that Figma trained its AI tools on existing app designs, but CEO Dylan Field denies this. Field says the cause lies in the underlying design system of the Create Designs feature. Figma has now temporarily taken the feature offline again “until we are confident we can support the output,” Field explains.
CTO Kevin Rasmussen can say with less certainty whether Make Designs was trained for Apple app designs or not. After all, the company did not train its AI models itself, he says in an interview with The Verge. Figma’s AI tools are based on OpenAI’s GPT-4o and AWS’ Titan image generator.
Figma doesn’t completely reject responsibility either. “Betas aren’t perfect by definition. But we just didn’t notice this particular problem. And we should have,” Rasmussen said in an interview.
What Figma can say for sure is that it does not feed user work into AI models. With adjusted terms of service, it is opening the door to do so. Users have until August 15 to decide whether or not they want to give their permission for this. Figma wants to avoid the uproar that Adobe experienced with its terms of service.
This article originally appeared on July 3. The text has been updated with the latest information.
Source: IT Daily
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