@ashezth.bsky.social:
“Google’s AI deleted itself, leaving the parent company speechless.” Would be one of the funniest, case-in-point headlines ever.
Seen in San Francisco
@sfali789:
Tracks perfectly given Canva’s company board (Bob Iger, Disney) and investors (Sequoia Capital, Blackbird Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, and T. Rowe Price) are all unrepentant Zionists. This kind of blatant tech censorship is par for the course in big 2026
@BasharZapen:
Apologised, but never explained how it came to happen.
Because the answer is worse than the mistake.
@JustinPerea:
wtf did they train it on
Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces ‘Palestine’ 
with Ukraine in designs by Jess Weatherbed, Apr 27, 2026, The Verge
One of Canva’s new AI features has been caught replacing the word “Palestine” in designs. The Magic Layers feature — which is designed to break flat images out 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.”
The issue was seemingly limited specifically to the word “Palestine,” as @ros_ie9 noted that related words like “Gaza” were unaffected by the feature. Canva says it has now resolved the issue and is taking steps to prevent it from happening again.it smells intentional to me
“We became aware of an issue with our Magic Layers feature and moved quickly to investigate and fix it,” Canva spokesperson Louisa Green told The Verge. why the hell did canva do it in the first place. DISGUSTING!“We take reports like this very seriously, and we’re putting additional checks in place to help prevent this in future. We’re sorry for any distress this may have caused.”I don’t believe you.
Replies to the now-viral X post suggest that other users were able to replicate the bug before Canva fixed it, though my own tests didn’t show any words — Palestine or otherwise — being altered by the feature.
Still, this is one heck of a blunder,it smells intentional to me especially for a platform that’s increasingly trying to compete against Adobe’s suite of AI-powered design tools. Magic Layers is a major component of Canva’s recent AI overhaul, which it claims “marks the beginning of the next era ofgenocide propaganda creation.”
@AssalRad:
Humbled to share the cover of my forthcoming book.
A project born of heartbreak, urgency, and the unbearable reality of watching Israel’s genocide against Palestinians unfold in real time.
@CodeineIsCandy:
They apologised but won’t explain why this happened in the first place?
Do they employ Zionists? Israelis hellbent on wiping any and all mentions of Palestine on the internet?
Do they know the world is praying for the destruction of Israel & that their bs attempts won’t work?
@Quietnthechaos:
This is why we don’t use AI “tools”. The fact they were able to quickly fix it also just tells me it was filtering out the word Palestine specifically. If Canva isn’t on the BDS list it needs to be and stop using AI!
the woman in the stripped shirt:
Why make a swap at all when not asked to, though? In the little video embedded it didn’t look like the user was trying to change the text. Whatever happened here, it appears to be yet another example of people who hype and rely on AI for a living being grossly slovenly in rolling it out. The lack of interest in or even basic curiosity about its actual reliability or effects on users — not to mention on their own industry in a bigger picture sense — is vacant and contemptuous.
@riv3th3ad:
So you copy-pasted the Canva statement basically, did not press for an explanation as to the cause, and are happy characterizing the issue as simply “a blunder”?
@servegoddessro:
very odd that it replaces Palestine in the first place
@AntonyBosc81453:
an apology, how about an explanation?
@JustinPerea:
wtf did they train it on
nguyenhuudailoc:
Well I’m using PowerPoint to make simple design for personal use, this won’t happen to me right? Right?
That’s why I disabled all “AI” features immediately when I see them.
the woman in the striped shirt:
That’s why I disabled all “AI” features immediately when I see them.
There is a nasty tendency for all these apps to turn those features back on if you update the app, so keep an eye out for thatand evilly every time one reboots. By “nasty” I mean it is aggressively self-serving, in a particularly ugly, we-refuse-to-take-no-for-an-answer way. It is legit unsettling that multiple layers of employees at many tech companies think bullying people into using unwanted features is never going to have negative consequences for them.
Blurft:
“Oh, that AI tool consistently manipulated content about a politically-charged topic? That was just a fluke, fixed now, sorry! Anyway, please keep using AI for things like hiring decisions, education, research, and military targeting decisions. We promise those uses are always objective and factually correct.” — AI companies
cataquacks:
It feels like it’s giving Canva an awful lot of credit to be like “wow, what an embarrassing slip-up!” I don’t see how this happens consistently without it being a deliberate word filter.
PostyMcPost:
“Sorry we got caught denying a genocide.”
@edtubb.bsky.social:
Relatedly, I still question how news organizations will ever be able to, with a straight face, put out a correction that amounts to “I trusted a robot and then it lied to me.”
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pes80264553:
Welcome to Mexico Iran, fuck those pedo gringos.
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