AI Is About to Photoshop Your Memories
The smartphone camera roll is a digital diary. What happens when the images inside are more perfect than real?
by Charlie Warzel
Oct 20, 2023
4 minutes
There is a following me around the internet. In the ad, a happy father is playing with his son on the beach while Mom is documenting it all on her brand-new Google Pixel 8 phone. Dad lifts the boy and gently tosses him a foot or so into the air. Mom, quick with the shutter, captures her giggling son at the apex of his flight. In the next frame, Mom clicks a button on her phone labeled “Magic Editor,” which allows her to isolate the boy on her screen and effortlessly drag him higher into the air and farther from Dad’s outstretched arms. With
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