Microsoft AI engineer warns FTC about Copilot Designer safety concerns

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Microsoft AI engineer warns FTC about Copilot Designer safety concerns
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A Microsoft engineer is raising safety concerns about the company’s Copilot Designer image generator in a letter to the FTC, CNBC reports.

A Microsoft engineer is bringing safety concerns about the company’s AI image generator to the Federal Trade Commission, according to a report from CNBC. Shane Jones, who has worked for Microsoft for six years, wrote a letter to the FTC, stating that Microsoft “refused” to take down Copilot Designer despite repeated warnings that the tool is capable of generating harmful images.

“Over the last three months, I have repeatedly urged Microsoft to remove Copilot Designer from public use until better safeguards could be put in place,” Jones wrote in the letter obtained by CNBC. “Again, they have failed to implement these changes and continue to market the product to ‘Anyone. Anywhere. Any Device.

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