Finally caught up with that article in The Verge about the new Pixel 9 offering fake photos as a feature.
You might say the final sentence is a touch dramatic. You'd be wrong.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24225972/ai-photo-era-what-is-reality-google-pixel-9
Google: "Also beginning May 15, 2024, we’re making other editing features in Google Photos more widely available, at no cost: Magic Eraser, Unblur, Sky suggestions... including Magic Editor" (https://support.google.com/photos/thread/268658175?hl=en&sjid=5192943275625854245-EU)
My Pixel 5: Nothing there! Boooh!
KI-Bildbearbeitung mit Google Fotos: ab Mitte Mai kostenlos für alle
#KünstlicheIntelligenz #Smartphones #Android #GoogleFotos #GoogleOne #KIBildbearbeitung #KITools #kostenlos #MagicEditor https://sc.tarnkappe.info/d62622
Photo taken at The Grotto in San Antonio and edited with the Google Photos Magic Editor AI
It's a ding dong. #Pixel8Pro #MagicEditor thinks I'm trying to edit a ding dong out of my female #dog and says woah, best I can do is put another ding dong there, sorry.
I tried multiple times and it keeps trying to put more ding dongs. No editing that leash out for me! #DogsOfMastodon
Now I'm trying to get that little bit of leash from between her legs... What's that, Google? What were you going to replace the leash with?
Now I'm thinking, let's try this #MagicEditor thing that Google is telling us we should love. Let's erase that leash...
Holy shit, pretty decent! Right? Right.
#Pixel8Pro #DogsOfMastodon 2/3
@dcseifert Exactly, as you've discussed on Vergecast several times. It is a bit crazy the example of the tent - it is literally putting in things that it didn't capture.
Very torn cos you can see how you can create great / better final products with all this AI editing, but loses skill of photography somewhat and replaces it with *yet more* looking down staring at a phone screen (editing the 'photo'). #pixel #magiceditor #pixelevent
