OpenAI believes it’s prepared to begin letting DALL-E customers edit pictures of actual human faces, a chance beforehand blocked over issues of potential sexual and political deepfakes proliferating from the AI.

In a letter to customers on Monday spotted by TechCrunch, OpenAI stated it could reintroduce the flexibility to add and edit actual human faces to its superior AI picture generator after constructing new detection and response strategies meant to forestall misuse and finally reduce,“the potential of harm.” Users are reportedly nonetheless barred from importing pictures of individuals with out their consent in addition to pictures they don’t have authorized rights to.

“Many of you have told us that you miss using DALL-E to dream up outfits and hairstyles on yourselves and edit the backgrounds of family photos,” OpenAI stated within the letter seen by TechCrunch. “A reconstructive surgeon told us that he’d been using DALL-E to help his patients visualize results. And filmmakers have told us that they want to be able to edit images of scenes with people to help speed up their creative processes.”

OpenAI didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark in search of readability on the coverage change.

DALL-E customers wasted no time providing up their faces to this system. Here’s a number of examples posted on Twitter.

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As AI image generators go, OpenAI has taken a relatively conservative route to realistic human faces, likely in order to avoid unintentionally facilitating the spread of deepfaked pornographic images and other graphic content already uploaded by less restrictive alternatives like Stability AI’s Stable Diffusion.

Monday’s move builds off of previous experimentation with human-like faces at OpenAI. In June, the company said it would let researchers begin generating images of realistic looking humans belonging to non-real humans. Though these images don’t run into the same consent issues as authentic human faces since they don’t involve actual living people, OpenAI similarly put up guardrails to avoid DALL-E spitting out a cesspool of unwanted images or “deceptive content.”

Deceptive or not, many of the recent images created by users and posted online are nonetheless pretty creepy, with the photorealistic images of fabricated people straddling right along the furthest edge of the uncanny valley.