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AI phones from Google and Apple will erode trust in everything
When anyone can manipulate a photo in seconds, it will get harder to believe what we see and hear.
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For the new Pixel 9 phones, Google has concentrated most of its AI prowess – abetted by the powerful G4 chip inside the phone – on the camera.
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Parmy Olson
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Alphabet Inc’s Google is racing to stuff its products with the most advanced artificial intelligence (AI) features, including some that will make you question everything you see and hear online. Its new Pixel phones make it easy to manipulate photos, adding people who were not in the original shot or moving their positions. You will be able to record phone calls, albeit with a disclosure to the person on the other line, and get a detailed summary of the conversation.
These cool, if creepy, features point to a disconcerting direction that AI tools are taking us in as they get built into more phones. The easier it is to manipulate the content we capture on our devices, the harder it will be to trust what we see on them, too.
