New AI tools are coming to Google Photos with the Pixel 8. Features like Magic Editor that let you reimagine the lighting and composition of your image raise the age-old question: what is a photo?
In its eight years of existence, Google Photos has shifted its official mission just once: from “home for all your photos and videos” to “home for all your memories,” says Google Photos VP Shimrit Ben-Yair. That tagline switch starts to make a lot more sense when you look at the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. Inside the new phones, Google Photos will see some of its biggest changes to date, all designed to refine your memories.
The Photos team approaches these new features by asking, “What tools make sense to people, and then how do we design an interface that puts the user in control of the changes that they are making?” Personally, I have no problem with the ethics of swapping out an image of my child’s face where he’s blinking for a nearly identical one where he’s not. Much of what Google is introducing this year treads carefully, just tiptoeing up to that line of “acceptable” AI edits and not crossing over.
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