Want to make your photos soulless? Google Images has you covered!

The big naivete I see from most of the comments is blaming pms and "tech bros"instead of realizing the same villain as always is in charge and that's business majors. Tech was awesome before the business guys came and ruined it all in the name of shareholder value. No tech employee can stop their senior vps from demanding they make this shit.

these AI tech bros really are soulless. Which photo would you rather have hanging up on your wall? If I saw the left photo, I'd think it was a memory from the happiest time of someone's life. If I saw the bottom right photo, I'd assume the person was obsessed with a Pixar character. and this is their curated example.

Wow, this is a great showcase...

of AI slop! The original picture is actually awesome. It captures a genuine happy moment the couple had in between dancing and partying.

And then there's the AI slop that removes almost all of the context. Good. Let the people see the slop.

Also: immich

I don't use Immich (yet), but I was sold on it when I saw their cursed knowledge page. Delightfully human
- I've been using Immich for a few months now and never seen this page. This is fucking hilarious

is this what they're using as a promotional graphic? these don't look like the people in the photo at all

Yeah wtf lol "here are some cartoony somewhat similar photos of somewhat similar people in completely different poses" ???
- the worst part is that we have been able to do this long before LLMs, and achieve much better results. There exist filters that will cartoonify your image! deterministic filters - they always spit out the same image given the same input.
  the problem with LLMs is that they go through this completely unnecessary level of indirection - they describe the image in text and then generate an image based on this text - essentially behaving like an extremely lossy compressor-decompressor pipe
this is what popped up when I opened the photos app, so yes, it is. they don't resemble the real people at all
- But is this one of your pics? If not, that would mean they've chosen it to show the best the software can do. Lame.

Weird how Google decided that the man in the original is laughing too much, and toned it down in all 4 versions.

her smiles are a lot weaker too, it's so fucking soulless

What a shitload of fuck, this shit is full of more diarrhea than a gas station bathroom after Taco Bell BOGO-night.

I hate this shit so much. When family members use it i want to punch them. Its rage inducing.

Her eyes look enormous compared to his in the slop images, while it’s obvious it’s just a head tilt and slightly closed eyes in the original.

That said, I am still glad that some AI slop fails in this regard. But I guess most are beyond and better by now or next week, unfortunately.

And these were the best they chose for the marketing

If they just spend a few hundred billion dollars more, their machine will finally will end the tyranny of the kiosk people at the mall.

The gimmicky ads around AI are the most pathetic part. If it was a good product, you wouldn't need to tell us to gaslight our elders with AI generated images of their childhood.

It's like nobody knows that the fuck it's good for.

I'll keep saying it. Solution looking for a problem.

In the bottom right slop, that left eye is going on an adventure!

Yet another reason to degoogle

Seems like a PM at Google looked at the godawful Apple Image Playground and thought "Oh wow we need that!"

Why? WHY??!! 😭