![]() ![]() In fairness, I should point out that a healthy chunk of Google's I/O keynote was spent addressing the ethical considerations of AI and the responsibility Google feels for helping people spot fakes. When Magic Editor comes to Photos later this year, they might as well call it Intro to Deepfakes because that's what this sort of feels like. Whenever you're able to move subjects around in a photo without anyone being none the wiser, you're tinkering with reality in a way that should set off alarm bells. ![]() There's a fine line between touch-up work and doctoring, and I fear that Magic Editor is going to make it to easy to cross that. Finally, he picked up the woman and moved her a little bit over the right, completely changing the framing of the shot. Then he brightened the sky, using Magic Editor to make it less gray and more blue (uh. First, came the tools familiar to anyone who's used Magic Eraser - Pichai removed some people in the background of the photo (fine) and a backpack strap dangling down the woman's coat (sure, why not). Instead, generative AI does all the heavy lifting for you.įor the Magic Editor demo at Google I/O, CEO Sundar Pichai showed off a vacation photo of a woman standing in front of a waterfall. Now you'll be able to brighten the image or even change the placement of the subject, all with no photo editing skills whatsoever. With Magic Editor, that scope will no longer be limited to just removing people. All you're really doing is sprucing up shots and tidying up backgrounds given the tool's limited scope. While Magic Eraser has always had an element of "Out-of-favor Soviet agriculture minister is airbrushed out of photo with Khrushchev" to it, it felt more benign in practice.
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