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The incredible blandness of AI photography

Everybody’s seen that waterfall before.

The skies turn blue, the woman is repositioned, her outfit is touched up.Pichai remarks on using the tool to “get rid of some clouds” and brighten up the scene to make it look “as sunny as you remember.” In one of my favorite photos of my son from the past year, he’s sitting on our living room couch wearing a firefighter hat, laughing hard at something with pure joy on his face. A pair of birds nested into a mossy rock face, a woman with a red coat and pants posing for her camera on a selfie stick, a view of the blue sky taken through the mist from close to the base of the falls: they’re the photos I like best from that day.

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