Figma recently pulled its “Make Designs” generative AI tool after a user discovered that asking it to design a weather app would spit out something suspiciously similar to Apple’s weather app — a result that could, among other things, land a user in legal trouble. This also suggested that Figma may have trained the feature on Apple’s designs, and while CEO Dylan Field was quick to say that the company didn’t train the tool on Figma content or app designs, the company has now released a full statement in a company blog post.

The statement says that Figma “carefully reviewed” Make Designs’ underlying design systems during development and as part of a private beta. “But in the week leading up to Config, new components and example screens were added that we simply didn’t vet carefully enough,” writes Noah Levin, Figma VP of product design. “A few of those assets were similar to aspects of real world applications, and appeared in the output of the feature with certain prompts.”

Once Figma identified the issue with the design systems, “we removed the assets that were the source of the similarities from the design system and disabled the feature,” Levin says. The company is working through “an improved QA process” before bringing back Make Designs, though Levin did not provide a timeline. (In an interview with The Verge earlier this month, CTO Kris Rasmussen said the company expected to reenable the feature “soon.”)

Figma launched Make Designs in a limited beta as part of its Config event announcements, but shortly after, the Apple-like mockups were posted on X. Figma pulled the feature, with Field taking responsibility for pushing the team to meet a deadline for Config. In our interview, Rasmussen said that Figma didn’t train the AI models powering the tool — which include OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Amazon’s Titan Image Generator G1 — at all.

In the blog post, Levin also went into some detail about the design systems powering the tool.