Google's 'Add Me' Feature Lets You Fake a Group Picture, but It Doesn't Always Work

Google’s Add Me feature for Pixel 9 phones allows you to add the photographer into a group photo. Should creating a picture of a moment that never actually happened with this augmented reality feature and other AI tools be cause for concern?

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0:00 Intro
0:15 Add Me Viewer Comments During the Pixel Event
1:03 How Add Me Works
2:32 My Thoughts on Add Me
3:07 Google Magic Editor Tool
3:46 Google's Reimagine AI Photo Feature
5:09 Outro and Call To Action

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[frankw]

Photographers are just mad because everyone and their mom can do this in the blink of an eye without going into Photoshop or some paid software to do it. Stop it

[amirmoradi]

So basically it just makes what people have been able to in Photoshop for the last 20 years a lot easier for anyone to do?

[Bigbook]

Its comical people asking what's a photo but Photoshop has been around for ages. I guess if this was part of Apple intelligence people would be glazing it as groundbreaking

[yaboipookiepook]

I don't have any issues with Google's photo editing features or any others, as they have been around for a long time. Google has simply made them more accessible to a wider audience, rather than just a niche group of people who knew how to use Photoshop. And it's not really a problem until you make it one.

If you don't need or want to use them, you're not obligated to do so. So when people ask what a photograph is, it's whatever you decide it is. It's all harmless, but not everything has to be so serious. It's your picture, and you can make it whatever you want. Be creative, live life to the fullest, and have fun. It's a memory, so make it what you want it to be 🙋🏽‍♂️😎🙋🏽‍♂️😎

[kramdens]

Awesome feature.. used it a few times already.. people are so dramatic

[MarkTrbojevic]

A photo is a creation that has meaning to YOU. Modify it however you want. If you're proud off it, post it wherever you want. Use whatever tools help you create. Thanks Google for providing great tools.

[Jayden-lrmm]

Imagine using that to troll your friends… damn the possibilities are endless

[tiburonroano]

AI copies and pastes for you that is add me. You can do this on most phones today.

[PilotFlightMars]

I need the behind the scenes laughing leaked.
Not a lot makes me laugh, but i chuckled along.

[vvillberry]

I would definitely put myself in pictures multiple times

[ClaytonGrimwald]

So, airbrushing has been around for over a century and photoshopping images has been around for several decades, both of which have greatly influenced how we view the human form since their inception, but now all of a sudden altering photos is a bad thing??? All these naysayers need to get over themselves.

[therealfrenchie]

people are mad u don t have to use photoshop

[Szymon.Skorka]

All pixel people will have a spiderman costume at Halloween with the same person photo :D

[archangel]

This is a wonderful feature. Those negative comments will always be people see the glass half empty while others see it half full 🤷🏽‍♂️. Having a feature like this is an invaluable tool to create invaluable memories, however you want those memories to be.

[hometechUK]

I don't get this fake photo comments, it's not fake persay, it's 2 photos 10 seconds parts merging. A fake photo would be adding a person or item that was not there at that time. Finally family photos will include every member of the family.

[BossAtwork]

Every movie, tv show is color corrected and has been edited since the beginning of moving pictures. People are suddenly behaving like this is something new

[arnjohnsonmusic]

I really appreciated this commentary in the video. Good work on covering this feature, and I like your philosophical reflections. Good stuff to think about!

[kjw-vwxr]

I'm not interested in making fake images or photos with AI. Do something more useful in real life. Gemini is still not even half-baked and not even integrated with any of the apps. It just still faked human voice assistant yet.. 😅

[matthewbaynham]

This tool is perfect for a group of drunk people to play with.

In terms of ethics, you've always been able to manipulate photos even before digital photography, but with tools to manipulate photos being far more widespread then people will become more skeptical of photos.

About 25 years ago I did a night school course in photography and the teacher told us a story how she had to photograph a busy street which was fall of people walking past a shop however she had to make it look like the street was empty, it was easy for her because she was a university lecturer in photography, this was 25 years ago when people would believe photos actually happened. Now if you see a photo people don't believe it, because they shouldn't believe it.

[mr.joshmateo]

it's "Photo vs picture". These AI edits make it a picture. No longer a photo. Introducing/removing something on a photo that wasn't there originally changes it into a picture. Adding a person, reshaping a face, removing a blemish those are all pictures.