{"id":4022,"date":"2023-07-02T14:21:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/guy-banned-by-midjourney-for-generating-images-of-politicians-cheating"},"modified":"2023-07-02T14:21:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T14:21:41","slug":"guy-banned-by-midjourney-for-generating-images-of-politicians-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/guy-banned-by-midjourney-for-generating-images-of-politicians-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Banned by Midjourney for Generating Images of Politicians Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hammer = Down In a self-described attempt to call attention to AI-spun misinformation, someone used Midjourney to create fake images of politicians cheating on their spouses \u2014 only to find themselves banned from Midjourney entirely. &#8220;I got banned from Midjourney AI for generating realistic images of politicians cheating on their wives for a series called &#8216;AI will revolutionize the blackmail industry,'&#8221; the images&#8217; creator, video editor Justin Brown, wrote in a Twitter thread showcasing the images, adding that &#8220;when used with intelligence and intent, AI can be weapon.&#8221; It was a well-enough intended stunt, we guess. But Midjourney clearly wasn&#8217;t having it, and honestly, it&#8217;s relieving to see the company being somewhat proactive about countering AI-generated misinformation in the run-up to the 2024 election. I got banned from Midjourney AI for generating realistic images of politicians cheating on their wives for a series called \u201cAI will revolutionize the blackmail industry\u201d A couple thoughts on AI images from someone who\u2019s good at making fake stuff Trump cheating on his wife: pic.twitter.com\/HjxBj7qdaR &mdash; JustinTBrown (@JuuustinBrown) May 26, 2023 Whack-a-Mole Among other figures, the politicians included in Brown&#8217;s Midjourney-created series included several candidates in the 2024 presidential race: current president Joe Biden, former president Donald Trump, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, and Florida governor Ron DeSantis. Although the images vary a bit in terms of believability, some are pretty convincing. It&#8217;s also important to note that the company only exiled Brown after\u00a0he&#8217;d posted the images on Reddit \u2014 meaning that, to Brown&#8217;s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/banned-midjourney-images-politicians-cheating\">Guy Banned by Midjourney for Generating Images of Politicians Cheating<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammer = Down In a self-described attempt to call attention to AI-spun misinformation, someone used Midjourney to create fake images of politicians cheating on their spouses \u2014 only to find&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[875,300,1046,114,3210,1470,870,868,3445,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}