So that if there’s a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn’t go to and they detected you’re most likely a fan, they’ll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they’ll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven’t been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They’re literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there’s no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child’s beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
It’s not a picture for them to look back on or to share with the kid when they’re older. It’s for social media. It starts as a perfectly nice photo and like an intrusive thought asks "what if you could make it better. "
I would hate to have the only parts of my past edited with things that weren’t there so my parents could impress the neighbors.
The commercial if you’re curious:
https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=BnJVvzyazqg
STEM lords:
Also STEM lords:
And people applaud this. At the same time you’ll be seeing more articles asking why suicide rates have skyrocketed and that young people feel more alienated than ever.
Unrealistic standards of beauty and success that you can project from your phone. My fear is that it’ll be normalized.
I have family with dementia and memory issues and I can’t imagine not being able to have any real pictures to explore memories
It’s likely to become a sort of (deliberate) arms race where social norms will expect enhanced images and anyone who doesn’t use them (or doesn’t use sufficiently expensive bazinga editing) will be socially marginalized.
It’s become more normalized and somehow more offputting than when everyone you know would add heavy gaussian blur to look… idk younger? Prettier? I honestly don’t get it because the blurred photos look awful to me.
Hides wrinkles and blemishes and warts and unkempt hairs and things like that
I haven’t had to see those yet, but if that’s what’s being normalized now… this is a new level of bleak bazinga clownishness that I didn’t even know was possible.
A picture is worth 50 words in an LLM prompt.
I intentionally bought a polaroid specifically for memories with my daughter that i could have ready nearly instantly. i still use 35mm on occasion, but that takes a bit more time and set up than a toddler can afford.
I gotta get a film camera. I got some nice prints of all my good cat pics cause it would really suck to lose them cause whatever device shit the bed. Hard copies of stuff are cool and good. I’d like to find something entirely analogue
the Kodak ultra f9 is a decent 35mm point and shoot for like 45 bucks. there’s a few other options around that price point as well.
Death to Meta
lol Pixel also has an “Add Me” feature to add people that weren’t there to your photos
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=x65VVs-aSUI
I don’t know, as someone who liked using Photoshop to do silly stuff (back when I had access to Photoshop), the idea of making it easy and practical to do on a phone sounds fun. I just don’t want AI to do it to photos I didn’t ask to edit. Stay tf out of my stuff