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

What is a photo, etc., etc.

Google is the latest phone company this year to announce AI photo editing tools, following Samsung’s somewhat troubling, mostly delightful sketch-to-image feature and Apple’s much more seemingly tame Image Playground coming this fall. In our week of testing, we added car wrecks, smoking bombs in public places, sheets that appear to cover bloody corpses, and drug paraphernalia to images. A year or two ago, adding a convincing car crash to an image would have taken time, expertise, an understanding of Photoshop layers, and access to expensive software.

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