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Google is racing headlong into the AI future, and that means different parts of the company are destined to collide with one another \u2014 Search is now generating AI-powered summary results, but flooding the web with AI-generated text is going to make search that much harder, for example. It\u2019s going to be messy and complicated and fascinating all at the same time. In general, the parts of Google that are charged with moderating platforms<\/em> (like YouTube and Search) are going to end up colliding with the parts of Google that help people create content<\/em> (like Gmail and Bard.) You can really just put them in two lists, draw a line from one to another, and predict a long list of interesting problems that will inevitably come up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This week\u2019s Google AI Collision (TM) is between the Pixel 8, whose Best Take feature uses AI to let you swap facial expressions in group photos to get \u201cperfect\u201d shots, and YouTube, which just rolled out the first cut of an AI-generated content policy that requires \u201ccreators to disclose when they\u2019ve created altered or synthetic content that is realistic.\u201d The blog post specifically cites content that \u201crealistically depicts an event that never happened\u201d as needing to be labeled, and notes the penalties for not consistently labeling realistic synthetic content can include content removal and demonetization.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Well, then! The Pixel 8 with Best Take and Magic Editor in Google Photos can very clearly generate realistic photos of events that never happened. Specifically, Best Take allows you to create moments between people that never occurred by picking between several facial expressions for them, and Magic Editor can simply remove things from the background. It\u2019s trivial to make people appear to be looking at the same thing, or different things, or reacting to one another in ways that never happened \u2014 a Pixel 8 photo of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce is potentially just a few taps away from telling a very different story than reality. So is a Best Take photo of Donald Trump during the upcoming election, for that matter. Google\u2019s own Pixel 8 ads are a great example of how easy it is, actually:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n So! Do Pixel 8 photos edited with Best Take or photos edited with Magic Editor in Google Photos need to be labeled on YouTube? We asked, and YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon said the context will matter and offered some early guidance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe goal of this update is helping the viewer to be better informed about content that is realistic but altered \u2014 not punishing creators for using AI,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you\u2019re using Best Shot to pick an image where everyone\u2019s eyes are open, that\u2019s something you could have probably done yourself by taking more photos (and likely not something you need to disclose). But if you\u2019re using tech to make it seem like you were in a place that you actually weren\u2019t, or altering a photo of an historic event, you\u2019ll probably need to disclose to your viewers that you used technology to alter the setting.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n This seems about right \u2014 although, \u201cit might have happened if you just took more photos\u201d is a very <\/em>fuzzy standard to try to enforce. What\u2019s more, this standard is very much in tension with YouTube\u2019s decision to have its own<\/em> generative AI tools always label synthetic content as such \u2014 photos edited with Magic Editor photos have metadata showing they were changed with AI, but Best Take photos do not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Google is racing headlong into the AI future, and that means different parts of the company are destined to collide with one another \u2014 Search is now generating AI-powered summary results, but flooding the web with AI-generated text is going to make search that much harder, for example. 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