Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ in designs

Source: The Verge

Issue Overview

One of Canva’s new AI features has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs. The Magic Layers feature – designed to break flat images into separate editable components – isn’t supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X user @ros_ie9 to automatically switch the phrase “cats for Palestine” to “cats for Ukraine.”

Original illustration (left) by Agathe Singer

Specifics

• The problem appeared to be limited to the word “Palestine.” Related terms such as “Gaza” were unaffected.
• The issue was reported on X (formerly Twitter) by user @ros_ie9.

Canva’s Response

Canva says it has now resolved the issue and is taking steps to prevent it from happening again.

“We became aware of an issue …”

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Source

Read the full story at The Verge.