Apple is ‘concerned’ about AI turning real photos into ‘fantasy’
by Jess Weatherbed from The Verge - All Posts on (#6RP3X)
Illustration by Haein Jeong / The Verge The upcoming release of Apple Intelligence has spurred the iPhone maker's own what is a photo?" moment. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple software chief Craig Federighi said the company is aiming to provide AI-powered image editing tools that preserve photo authenticity.
Our products, our phones, are used a lot," said Federighi. It's important to us that we help purvey accurate information, not fantasy."
iOS 18.1 brings a new Clean Up" feature to the Photos app that can quickly remove objects and people from images - a capability that Federighi and WSJ reporter Joanna Stern noted is far tamer than editing tools offered by rivals like Google and Samsung, which can add entire AI-generated assets to images. Despite...