On Monday afternoon, while walking around, I asked someone to take a photo of my wife and I. The views were amazing and we wanted to remember it in a beautiful way. Selfies were not enough, so I opted to have someone take a photo of us with the rear cameras on my Pixel 8 Pro.

This may be one of the last times I’ll be in this situation.

Why? Google has suggested a very striking option. It’s called “Include Me” (“Add me”) uses artificial intelligence to take photos of a couple or group without needing outsiders.

The operation is simple: One person takes a first photo with a frame, which then allows them to, yes, artificially “insert themselves into the photo.” Then another person or couple from the group takes a second photo with the person not in the photo standing in the photo.

The new AI feature called “Include Me” was seen in action at a Google event demo.

From there, Google’s AI allows us to combine both photos to include all the people who need to be in the photo. You can move the person in question from the second photo so that they don’t cover the previous ones, for example, and in a few minutes we have a special group photo.

one never existed.

That’s the biggest problem with these images. As with Pixel Magic Editor, what Google wants us to do is create fake memories. Those group or couple photos were never exactly like that, and the same goes for the images where we apply the (otherwise awesome) magic eraser to remove objects or people that spoil the image.

Why have a mediocre memory of that day at the beach when everything could have been perfect?

“Include me” is as magical and wonderful as the aforementioned Magic Eraser or the “Best Shot” function that allows us to take group and family photos where we all have a Profidén smile. All of these options are eye-catching but also, in some critical opinions, irritating.

These criticisms are logical and reasonable, but they can also be considered as another section of the book. Criticisms of “Photoshopped” images have already existed in the past. These days we live with these edited images without any problems, knowing that the model on the magazine cover is (probably) not as gorgeous as they want us to see.

Sometimes these fake images also end up being “hunted” and cause real scandals that could be mitigated here, for example. Google does not offer any option, such as a watermark, to clearly indicate that this image has been edited with AI tools, and this will once again cause the suspicions regarding any image to continue to grow.

But yes, our memories They will be perfect and wonderful.It was edited at least once by Google’s AI tools.

On Xataka | I want to take photos the way I want, but my phone’s camera is so smart that it doesn’t allow it