A London-based generative AI startup backed by Octopus Ventures has been allowing users to create “potentially harmful” content without restrictions, UKTN can reveal, amid heightened scrutiny over the efficacy of guardrails used by AI firms to protect consumers.
Tests conducted by UKTN show that Haiper AI, an image and video generation platform founded by ex-Google DeepMind staff, contains significantly less robust safeguards to prevent the creation of potentially harmful content compared with the majority of its peers.
UKTN was able to generate images depicting Donald Trump meeting with Taylor Swift as well as British Prime Minister Keir Starmer waving a burning Israeli flag, raising fears the that the platform could be used by bad actors to spread disinformation or hateful messaging....