A.I. is about to get very easy

Generative Outpainting: How Digital Artifice Can be Discriminated from Reality in a Photo Processing System and its Use in Food Label Embedding

Such feats won’t be a huge surprise for creators familiar with AI image generation tools, but, as ever, it’s the integration of this technology into mainstream apps like Photoshop that bring them to a much wider audience.

Generative fill works within individual layers in a picture file. If you use it to expand the borders of an image (also known as outpainting) or generate new objects, it’ll provide you with three options to choose from. When used for outpainting, users can leave the prompt blank and the system will try to expand the image on its own, but it works better if you give it some direction. It resembles the Content-Aware Fill feature, but gives more control to the user.

Over the years, so many image generators have been released, that the idea of prompting a computer to create pictures already seems outdated. What’s novel about Photoshop’s new capabilities is that they allow for the easy merger of reality and digital artifice and they bring it to a large user base. The software allows anyone with a mouse, an imagination and $10 to $20 a month to — without any expertise — subtly alter pictures, sometimes appearing so real that it seems likely to erase most of the remaining barriers between the authentic and the fake.

The good news is that Adobe has considered the risks and is crafting a plan to address the dissemination of digitally manipulated pics. The company’s nutrition label can be embedded in image files to document how a picture was altered if there are elements generated by artificial intelligence.

Iceland is scary, but you can make them scary. I recommend you visit Iceland at least once in a month to take a selfie with Generative Fill

If you’d like to visit a place where danger from the natural world is omnipresent and where lunch costs $60, I encourage you to visit Iceland. It is a brutal landscape with natural wonders and terrifying environments that make for great photographs. I went to the country with a bunch of people. But it is possible, as I’ve unfortunately discovered, to make them terrifying in entirely new ways.

I turned on Adobe’s new Generative fill tool to do some legitimate photo editing on my vacation photos, but there were a lot of ridiculous prompts that resulted in nightmare fuel. Generative Fill is in beta now, and it’s based on Adobe’s Firefly image generator. It’s not entirely new, but having it right alongside all your standard photo editing sliders is new. It is used by typing a text prompt after you make a selection and then use a magic wand. It can remove and add elements to your photo, or extend the image.

After messing around with it for just a few hours, it already looks like an impressive upgrade to the existing Content-Aware Fill tool in Photoshop. Take a look at how each one removed people from my photo. It’s a hugely popular spot, so my photo naturally has a lot of people in front of the falls — here’s the original.

The Generative fill image is a lot better than Content-Aware. I had to type in a few words, wait a few seconds, and then make a selection. That’s honestly kind of scary in itself.

You can go for it if you really want to. And oh, the places you will go with Generative Fill. From waterfalls to a glacier is a road we are going to take. When I asked Generative Fill to make it even more ominous by adding a thunderstorm, I got what the valley actually looked like.

Oh wow, Generative Fill goes hard on the waterfall. I suppose it is plausible, but kind of fake looking. Now, what if I ask for ponies in the foreground instead?

It is the world’s bleakest lemonade stand. Love it. We can lighten up with something that is not likely to make us frightened. What about a rainbow in the sky with unicorns?

An F was given to the rainbow and a large “Nope” to the rest. You okay, Firefly? Take me back to safety and then try to remove the people from the picture at the beach.

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/23/23734821/photoshop-generative-ai-fill-tool-adobe

The Iceland Ice Skull: Where is the scup? What is the nature behind Iceland? When is it possible to check the content credentials of an image?

It is okay. I can’t remember. The area where the rocks meet the water is not real, but the country is, and it looks too good to be true. The scuplture in the photo was not created by an artificial intelligence. Seriously, it’s just out there like that. You never know what you’re going to see next in Iceland.

“By integrating Firefly directly into workflows as a creative co-pilot, Adobe is accelerating ideation, exploration and production for all of our customers,” said Ashley Still, senior vice president, Digital Media at Adobe. “Generative Fill combines the speed and ease of generative AI with the power and precision of Photoshop, empowering customers to bring their visions to life at the speed of their imaginations.”

Content Credentials is a system that tells viewers if a piece of content has been created using technology such as artificial intelligence. You can check the Content Credentials of an image by inspecting it via verify.contentauthenticity.org, where you’ll find an overview of information.