Figma explains how its AI tool ripped off Apple’s design
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#6PAP4)
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Figma recently pulled its Make Designs" generative AI tool after a user discovered that asking it to design a weather app would spit out something suspiciously similar to Apple's weather app - a result that could, among other things, land a user in legal trouble. This also suggested that Figma may have trained the feature on Apple's designs, and while CEO Dylan Field was quick to say that the company didn't train the tool on Figma content or app designs, the company has now released a full statement in a company blog post.
The statement says that Figma carefully reviewed" Make Designs' underlying design systems during development and as part of a private beta. But in the week leading up to Config, new components and example screens...