Figma最近撤回了其“Make Designs”生成式AI工具，因为有用户发现，当要求它设计一个天气应用程序时，它会输出与苹果天气应用程序非常相似的结果，这可能导致用户陷入法律纠纷。这表明Figma可能在Apple的设计上训练了该功能，尽管CEO Dylan Field很快表示该公司没有在Figma内容或应用程序设计上训练该工具，但该公司现在已在公司博客文章中发布了完整声明。

🤔 Figma撤回其“Make Designs”生成式AI工具，因为有用户发现，当要求它设计一个天气应用程序时，它会输出与苹果天气应用程序非常相似的结果，这可能导致用户陷入法律纠纷。Figma表示，他们在开发过程中以及在私有测试阶段“仔细审查”了“Make Designs”的基础设计系统。但Figma产品设计副总裁Noah Levin表示：“在Config之前的那个星期，我们添加了一些新的组件和示例屏幕，我们没有对其进行足够仔细的审查。其中一些资产与现实世界应用程序的某些方面相似，并在使用某些提示时出现在该功能的输出中。”

💪 Figma在识别出设计系统的问题后，“我们从设计系统中删除了导致相似性的资产，并禁用了该功能。”Levin表示。该公司正在“改进QA流程”，然后再恢复“Make Designs”，尽管Levin没有提供时间表。Figma在Config活动宣布中推出了“Make Designs”的有限测试版，但不久之后，类似苹果的模型就被发布在X上。Figma撤回了该功能，Field对推动团队在Config之前完成期限负起责任。

🚀 Figma在Config上宣布了其他AI工具，例如一个为设计生成文本的工具，这些功能仍然可用。该公司还制定了其AI训练政策。用户可以在8月15日之前选择加入或退出，以允许Figma在其数据上进行训练，以用于潜在的未来模型。（Starter和Professional计划的用户默认情况下已加入，而Organization和Enterprise计划的用户默认情况下已退出。）

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” the 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 were added that we simply didn’t vet carefully enough,” writes Noah Levin, Figma VP of product design. “A few of those assets were similar to aspects of real world applications, and appeared in the output of the feature with certain prompts.”

Once Figma identified the issue with the design systems, “we removed the assets that were the source of the similarities from the design system and disabled the feature,” Levin says. The company is working through “an improved QA process” before bringing back Make Designs, though Levin did not provide a timeline. (In an interview with The Verge earlier this month, CTO Kris Rasmussen said the company expected to re-enable the feature “soon.”)

Figma launched Make Designs in a limited beta as part of its Config event announcements, but shortly after, the Apple-like mockups were posted on X. Figma pulled the feature, with Field taking responsibility for pushing the team to meet a deadline for Config. In our interview, Rasmussen said that Figma didn’t train the AI models powering the tool — which include OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Amazon’s Titan Image Generator G1 — at all.

In the blog post, Levin also went into some detail about the design systems powering the tool.

To give the model enough freedom to compose designs from a wide variety of domains, we commissioned two extensive design systems (one for mobile and one for desktop) with hundreds of components, as well as examples of different ways these components can be assembled to guide the output.

We feed metadata from these hand-crafted components and examples into the context window of the model along with the prompt the user enters describing their design goals. The model then effectively assembles a subset of these components, inspired by the examples, into fully parameterized designs. From there, Amazon Titan, a diffusion model, creates the images needed for the design. It’s more or less as simple as AI helping you identify, arrange, fill out, and theme small composable templates from a design system to give you a jumping off point.

Levin didn’t specify who Figma commissioned for the systems. The company declined to comment.

Image: Figma

Image: Figma

At Config, Figma announced other AI tools, like one that generates text for designs, and those features are still available. The company also laid out its AI training policies. Users have until August 15th to opt in or out of allowing Figma to train on their data for potential future models. (Users on Starter and Professional plans are opted in by default, and users Organization and Enterprise plans are opted out by default.)