cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40428405
cross-posted from: https://flipboard.social/users/TechDesk/statuses/113013778572529137
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.
#AI #GenerativeAI #ArtificialIntelligence #Google #Pixel #Pixel9 #Smartphones #Photography #Tech
I feel like there was a small golden factual era in humanity were you could easily prove something with a photo and then a video. It’s soon over, we’ll have to get back to trusting testimonies like it was before for daily life, or scientific police for when it’s worth the cost.
We keep asking the question if we can, but not if we should
As usual China is the trendsetter of horrific digital developments and they‘ve been using heavy filters by default for so long I was almost hoping we‘d skip out on this one.
I‘m not looking forward to scrolling through family photos soon and barely recognize the people in them because my boomer family forgot to uncheck a box somewhere and didn‘t really notice we‘re all looking like Tom Cruise or Scarlet Johansson lookalikes all of the sudden.
We are fucked.
Agreed
And what’s the point of developing this technology, anyway? What problem does destroying the veracity of photographs solve?
