With the next generation of AI photo editing tools built into the Google’s flagship Pixel 9 family, our basic assumptions about photographs capturing a reality we can believe in are about to be seriously tested — and @theverge shows us why.
“An explosion from the side of an old brick building. A crashed bicycle in a city intersection. A cockroach in a box of takeout. It took less than 10 seconds to create each of these images with the Reimagine tool in the Pixel 9’s Magic Editor. They are crisp. They are in full color. They are high-fidelity. There is no suspicious background blur, no tell-tale sixth finger. These photographs are extraordinarily convincing, and they are all extremely f—ing fake.” Take a look at the pictures for yourself as The Verge ponders the implications of these new capabilities.
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While I didn’t dive deep into the pixels, those images were really convincing. A few years ago, I took a challenge to try to determine which pictures were real and which were manually edited. I managed to get 8 out of 10 correct, but with these images, I doubt I would get more than 2 without looking at blending pixels.@theverge
Imagine how it will be when this can also be used be regular people for video too.
The conclusion was spot on “We are fucked”
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