#AI#GenerativeAI#Smartphones#Google#MagicEraser#PhotoEditing: "Google’s latest Pixel phones, the ad wants you to know, come standard with a suite of new generative-AI photo-editing tools. With a few taps, you can move people around in the frame like the mom does with her son, or use the “Magic Eraser” to get rid of a pesky photobomber. “Best Take,” a feature that snaps a bunch of images at once and isolates each person’s face, allows you to merge photos so that everyone appears to be perfectly looking at the camera at the same time. Combined, these features mostly reflect the photographer’s intent at the time of capture. But is the end result … real?
Of course, there’s nothing particularly scandalous about editing a family photo. Anyone sufficiently trained in Photoshop has been able to do something similar for decades; likewise, smartphones and photo apps have long offered the ability to touch up a picture until it’s transformed, even “yassified.” Yet tools like Magic Editor will likely soon become standard across devices, making it dramatically easier to perfect our photos—and thus to gently rewrite small details from our lives."
Thanks for your continued work. We would like to bring to the fore a few ideas.
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This is such a great piece about photos, memories, and using AI to remove unwanted strangers from your smartphone photos.
Couple of photographer friends have been playing with Adobe's AI tools and adding sections of track, removing camera gantries, and other odds and ends. We are entering an era where reality is no longer recorded accurately.