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Google’s new AI product photo tool cuts the need for product photographers
Google unveiled Product Studio, a new tool that makes it easier to create product photos, but sadly, reduces the need for product photographers. With the help of generative AI, sellers will be able to create any setting they want for their product images.
Google is preparing to delete your photos
Google has announced an update to its policies on inactive accounts in a new blog post. The update says that Google plans to start deleting photos from inactive accounts starting in December 2023. It defines inactive accounts as accounts that haven’t been logged into for a two-year period. While most people actively using Google Photos won’t be affected, those with older or backup accounts might see their images disappear.
Photos aren’t the only things that’ll start to be deleted, either. Google says they may also delete accounts and data from Google Workspaces, including Gmail Docs, Drive, Meet and Calendar. To retain the latter, you simply need to log into your Google account. But for photos, you will need to specifically log into your Google Photos account once every two years in order to avoid deletion of its contents.
Google’s new AI feature answers your questions about photos without captions
Google has introduced some new AI features that are both interesting and useful for people with visual (and other) impairments. One of these features is an “image question and answer” capability in the Lookout app for Android. Basically, this feature lets you “chat” with the app and ask it everything you want to know about a photo you’ve opened.
Google introduces new tool to prevent confusion over AI generated images
Google is introducing new image search tools which will help to identify AI-generated images and other fakes. The new tool is called About This Image and is part of Google’s reverse image search feature.
When it’s fully launched this summer, Google reverse image searches will be able to tell you when it indexed a picture the first time. Also, the metadata tags will help identify AI-generated pictures. Useful in these days of fake news and AI-generated imagery.
Google’s chatbot Bard now includes Adobe’s Firefly AI image generator
The AI race is getting more heated, and more participants are joining in. But some seem to be joining forces, too, trying to rule the text-to-image kingdom.
During the 2023 I/O event, Google and Adobe announced a collaboration in this field. From now on, Google’s chatbot Bard will integrate the text-to-image generator Adobe Firefly. This way, users will be allowed to generate, edit and share images straight from Bard’s command line instead of using two tools separately.
AI cameras help show regeneration of Australian outback after wild fires
The impact of wildfires on the Australian outback and wildlife was devasting. The 2019-2020 season was particularly bad, causing unprecedented harm and affecting over 3 billion animals. Of course, it takes time for the environment to recover from such an event, and conservationists are monitoring the recovery via AI technology and a network of cameras.
Seven million photos from around 1,100 sensor-activated cameras in eight bushfire-affected areas across Australia were collected and analysed. The project is a collaboration between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Conservation International, and local land managers.
Google adds auto blur feature to any explicit image even if SafeSearch is turned off
Google is rolling out a safer image search feature over the coming months that will blur any images that it deems explicit. It will apparently do this automatically using AI, even if the Safe Search feature is deactivated. Google has apparently initiated this to celebrate ‘Safe Internet Day’.
The news was announced yesterday in a blog post and is aimed at keeping families and young children safer when online. There will also be advances in privacy features in addition to the image-blurring tool.
TikTok could soon be banned from app stores
As the conflict between China and the U.S. progresses, lawmakers have now turned their attention to TikTok. A China-based company stands behind the super-popular app, so there are growing concerns that user data might end up in the hands of the Chinese government. Therefore, a Democratic senator recently urged on Apple and Google CEOs to remove TikTok from their app stores immediately.
Google Lens prototype could do the impossible: decode doctors’ handwriting
If you’ve used Google Lens, you know that it’s capable of solving lots of different tasks. And now, it has a superpower that only pharmacists have had so far – it can decode doctors’ handwriting.
At its annual conference in India last week, Google announced that it’s working to bring you a “doctors’ handwriting translator” in the app. And of course, it’s working closely with pharmacists to develop the tool.
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