alt Hacker NewsThere will be a generation of children who will grow up and look back at their childhood photos and wonder if they ever really happened.
I also laughed out loud when they are showing the "cleanup" tool and they guy is talking about removing "distractions" and then removes 2 of the 3 girls juggling and having fun.
Ah yes, those friends you were forming core memories with, or as our tech overlords call them, distractions.
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Google pushes the exact same thing. The onboarding flow when I setup my Pixel highlighted a few new features and they gave that prime attention real estate to that same exact feature, showing how you can remove objects from a photo. The specific example was extremely silly, something like removing a tent from a camping photo. Thank god we don't have to see objects that were a core part of the memory being photographed!
Wow. That's a very good observation, actually. We forget our photos are not only our memory. Those YT guys who geotrack photo memories will have a much harder time in the future. Just look at that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6Hf3SdVcY
Don’t worry. By the time they grow up they’ll just ask the AI for a summary of their childhood.
I was thinking about this, i’m sure there’s been a black mirror episode, but one thing i think back to is one where the us gov used ai to alter a stoic expression on an arrested protestors face and altering it to look like she was crying because that’s what they wanted to portray.
It’s a bullying tactic, i shiver to think how some people will make happy memories out of things that aren’t.