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Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos

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Summary
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64% Informative

Google 's new AI photo editing tool Reimagine lets you select and erase parts of a scene or change the sky to look like a sunset.

You can select any nonhuman object or portion of the scene and type in a text prompt to generate something in that space.

The results are often very convincing and even uncanny.

In our week of testing, we added car wrecks, smoking bombs in public places, sheets that appear to cover bloody corpses, and drug paraphernalia.

Meta didn’t tag it automatically as AI -generated, and I’m sure nobody would have been the wiser if they’d seen it. Who knows, maybe everyone will read and abide by Google ’s AI policies and use Reimagine to put wildflowers and rainbows in their photos. That would be lovely! But just in case they don’t, it might be best to apply a little extra skepticism to photos you see online..

VR Score

51

Informative language

42

Neutral language

14

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

42

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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