DuckDuckGo just added AI image generation, and it's brilliant. While tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Gemini, and Leonardo AI have dominated the AI image generation space, DuckDuckGo now offers its own image creation tool. This means you can generate custom images on the fly while you're already using DuckDuckGo for searches.

Dani Pinter, the chief legal officer and director of the Law Center for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, said X failed to pull abusive images from its AI training material and should have banned users requesting illegal content. “This was an entirely predictable and avoidable atrocity,” Pinter said.

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