We recently announced a beta for AI features in Figma Design. In this email, we are sharing our approach to building AI features and what's next.
To improve these features, we plan to start training AI models to understand design concepts, patterns, file structure, and tooling in Figma. Learn more about how your team can manage AI and our other updates below.
Team admins can control how their teams use AI with two new settings for each team they manage:
• Whether your team can use AI features (on by default for Starter and Professional teams).
• Whether content is shared for AI training (on by default for Starter and Professional teams).
AI features and content training are optional. Teams can use AI features, even if content training is turned off. Read how to access your AI settings here.
The content training setting goes into effect on August 15th, 2024. If an admin turns off content training after that, new content and edits will not be used to train AI models.
The key updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy do the following:
• Allow Figma to use your team's content to improve AI features, when content training is set to 'on'
•Clarify that you retain your rights to content inputted into Figma AI and to the results generated
These new terms will go into effect on August 15, 2024. By continuing to use Figma, including keeping your files with us, you agree to these terms.
If you'd like to read more about Figma's approach to AI, please visit our website. Thank you for using Figma.
I wonder how fast they decide to start using your files for training?
So if you turn it off on Aug 15th at 8pm, is it too late? Do they make it so, if its not turned off 1 second after midnight Aug 14th, its already using your data to train? Sounds crazy, but I expect them to do something like that. So that no matter what you can't beat their clock to prevent them from using your data.
The opt-out should be before they even enable AI to start training, say July 15th. But they won't because they need your data to train on to make more money.
> Clarify that you retain your rights to content inputted into Figma AI and to the results generated
Will they help identify other customers that have made use of our content in order to file claims (like by showing a list next to the extracted content)? Or are the "results generated" limited to what you get out of your AI requests?
Being so visual and using a binary file format, Figma is a great test case in the limits of current gen LLMs. I imagine that in the medium term they will move towards relatively novel approaches rather than the finer tuned LLMs that they are presumably using right now.
They have a billion dollars to put to work after all.
That’s the thing. I’m not sure they can do much with diffusion models. They need an output that maps to the Figma definition language or whatever it is they call it. In theory an LLM could do this, but they would need to train it on a huge amount of Figma customer data so I bet that’s where they’re going with this new policy.
We recently announced a beta for AI features in Figma Design. In this email, we are sharing our approach to building AI features and what's next.
To improve these features, we plan to start training AI models to understand design concepts, patterns, file structure, and tooling in Figma. Learn more about how your team can manage AI and our other updates below.
Team admins can control how their teams use AI with two new settings for each team they manage:
• Whether your team can use AI features (on by default for Starter and Professional teams).
• Whether content is shared for AI training (on by default for Starter and Professional teams).
AI features and content training are optional. Teams can use AI features, even if content training is turned off. Read how to access your AI settings here.
The content training setting goes into effect on August 15th, 2024. If an admin turns off content training after that, new content and edits will not be used to train AI models.
The key updates to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy do the following:
• Allow Figma to use your team's content to improve AI features, when content training is set to 'on'
•Clarify that you retain your rights to content inputted into Figma AI and to the results generated
These new terms will go into effect on August 15, 2024. By continuing to use Figma, including keeping your files with us, you agree to these terms.
If you'd like to read more about Figma's approach to AI, please visit our website. Thank you for using Figma.