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I have one of those Pixel phones, and though I didn't get it for its photo editing purposes (I use Lightroom and Photoshop for that), I did try out the Magic Eraser function out of curiosity. It was alarming to me how easy it was to seamlessly alter a photo with basically zero skills.

I think we're already past the point where we can't trust the veracity of any photos that we see. As I blogged recently, I fear we'll likely soon be at that point with video as well: https://funcrunch.medium.com/why-billy-joels-new-deepfake-video-makes-me-sad-d26bb5896558

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Pax Ahimsa Gethen
Pax Ahimsa Gethen

Written by Pax Ahimsa Gethen

Queer agender trans male. Black vegan atheist, pacifist. funcrunch.org, patreon.com/funcrunch

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