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Pixel 9 AI Will Add You To Group Photos Even When You're Not There (androidheadlines.com) 54

Posted by msmash from the what's-reality dept.
Google's upcoming Pixel 9 smartphones are set to introduce new AI-powered features, including "Add Me," a tool that will allow users to insert themselves into group photos after those pictures have been taken, according to leaked promotional video obtained by Android Headlines. This feature builds on the Pixel 8's "Best Take" function, which allowed face swapping in group shots.
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Pixel 9 AI Will Add You To Group Photos Even When You're Not There

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  • Now you can time nefarious and illegal acts to coincide with some event elsewhere and say "well, it can't have been me, officer, and I've got photos to prove it. That's me, third from the right, holding a Mai Tai"

  • 1) Android malware allowing remote photobombing your favorite moments.

    2) Compromising the pictures of embedded journalists.

    3) When Trump claims he "doesn't know" someone there are pictures of him associating with, he can plausibly be telling the truth.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by dbialac ( 320955 )
      • When Biden says his uncle was eaten by cannibals, we now know he was and Biden has the pictures to prove it.
      • When Kamala Harris says she's been to the US/Mexico border, we know she has pictures to prove it as well.
      • I also have pictures of me having a threesome with Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, I have the proof.

        • When Biden says his uncle was eaten by cannibals, we now know he was and Biden has the pictures to prove it.
        • When Kamala Harris says she's been to the US/Mexico border, we know she has pictures to prove it as well.
        • I also have pictures of me having a threesome with Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, I have the proof.

        We can finally get photo evidence of Biden beating up "Pork Chop" or whatever that bully's name was too!

    • 3) When Trump claims he "doesn't know" someone there are pictures of him associating with, he can plausibly be telling the truth.

      Only when he's literally not speaking.

  • More stoopid crap (Score:4, Insightful)

    by MpVpRb ( 1423381 ) on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:40PM (#64658324)

    It's interesting that AI companies can't seem to think up any useful ideas and continue to release increasingly stoopid crap
    It's almost like they're going for gold in the olympics of stoopid

  • Or maybe not.

  • Add a cartoon outline and this is fine. (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Fly Swatter ( 30498 ) on Friday July 26, 2024 @02:56PM (#64658372) Homepage
    Otherwise the selfie crowd just got even more fake. Influencers are drooling to show this off to their sheep.

    If it's digital it simply can't be trusted anymore. Anything important will soon have to be done in person face to face, which the new internet generation has never developed the skills to accomplish comfortably.

  • Seeing isn't believing any more (Score:3)

    by Big Bipper ( 1120937 ) on Friday July 26, 2024 @03:04PM (#64658398)
    It's getting so you can't believe anything you didn't see or touch for yourself, with nothing in between. No cameras, no augmented or virtual reality, no mainstream media. And magicians have been fooling us live for ages ( thanks Penn and Teller ;-) ). Even Descartes starting point, Cognito Ergo Sum could be wrong if it turns out that we really do live in a simulation. We may as well enjoy the Cool Aid while we can.

    • Descartes' end point will always be disappointing, but even being in a simulation would not nullify the idea of cogito ergo sum.

      The ability to consider your own existence is proof of that existence. It only works for you, of course... To me you could just be an NPC scripted to say you know you exist.

    • well, to paraphrase a character from Free Guy, if you live in a simulation or not, how does that affect you? I mean, you'll still go to work, come home, do the things you enjoy and some you wouldn't, for us NPC's it is very much the same regardless.

      • It better not be a simulation!!! If it is, I say this is not fair! Couldn't of simulated me as Hugh Hefner or someone equally important?

        • now, you don't want to be simulated as Hugh Heffner, I mean, at this stage he is a rotting corpse in the ground, right? I mean, wouldn't you rather be simulated as Eminem or some such?

  • Of course you need new hardware for new software.

    Honestly, my Pixel 8 feels exactly like my Pixel 5, just with a few more stupid software features because Pixel 5's updates were discontinued.

    I can't even get $100 for a great condition Pixel 5 now.

  • Why not add me to the Taj Mahal and the Colosseum, so I can stay home instead of all that traveling?

    • or, add you to images of the Taj Mahal being built! That'd be fun.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by HiThere ( 15173 )

        "I was born about 10,000 years ago..."

        • It was tough back then! you had to walk uphill, in the snow, both ways to school, and then when you finally got to school, you had to build the school out of stone you had to quarry yourself! Kids have it easy these days....
    • Anyone can do this. Apple's Photo Booth has been doing that for over a decade.

    • the Colosseum

      I've been. It's just a big, worn out stadium in desperate need of repair. There's a lot of stadiums you can go to that aren't full of eroded seating and a mess of a ruinus floor instead of a flat playing surface. Somebody really should have been taking care of this place. The Pantheon doesn't have this problem, and it's nearly as old.

  • They will no longer be confined to awkward selfies. Now they can show off all their "friends".

    Android users: this is the level of esteem in which Google holds you. Why? Because Google has all the data to prove how lonely you are.
  • ...millions of MAGA degenerates would have graduated from university.

  • Misinformation for the masses too

  • Please tell me they are advertising this by showing the famous Stalin photo with the person removed, then a lookalike to that person adding themselves back in.

  • Useful for propaganda and/or gaslighting your family or significant other
  • ...to a selfie shot of Vladimir Putin & Kim Jong Un on a roller coaster ride in Pyongyang!

  • You can't spell alibi... (Score:3)

    by yababom ( 6840236 ) on Friday July 26, 2024 @05:27PM (#64658732)

    without AI..

    --Google

  • ... insert themselves into group photo ...

    Media influencers no longer need to visit attractions and stay in expensive resorts, they can use Google AI to show everyone how fabulous their life is. I remember a 1940s movie about a newspaper columnist whose weekly rant about her life was a long way from reality: Plenty of people don't want to keep-up, they want to be better than the 'Joneses'.

    Expect many photos of the latest media celebrity and Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

  • I hope this feature will reduce the number of visitors at Lake Louise here in Alberta May be we will be able to visit it again soon...

  • In the UI, that option is labeled the Kremlin filter.

  • How soon before AI is adding/modifying TV shows? John Brunner predicted this, but missed the timeline by about 25 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

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