The new feature on the Pixel 9 series is remarkably effective at generating disturbing imagery — but the safeguards are alarmingly inadequate. It turns out that a rabbit in an AI-generated top hat was just the beginning. Google is the latest phone manufacturer to introduce AI photo editing tools this year, following Samsung’s somewhat unsettling but mostly amusing sketch-to-image feature and Apple’s seemingly more innocent Image Playground, set to debut this fall. The Pixel 9’s response is a new tool called “Reimagine,” and after spending a week experimenting with it…
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