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   Pixel Studio on the Pixel 9 now lets you generate AI images of people, and    
   the results can be terrifying   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:29:39 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Google has rolled out image generation of people to Pixel Studio.   
      
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   Google has finally added humans to the long list of things Pixel Studio on    
   its Pixel phones can generate AI images of. The technology, however, still   
   seems to be in its infancy because the results are, shall we say variable,   
   verging on terrifying?    
      
   For instance, I asked Pixel Studio to generate an image of an athlete and it   
   showed me an image of a man without any skin at all! (See the image above.)   
   Not only was the image quite shocking, it wasnt anywhere near what Id asked   
   for.    
      
   To be fair to Google, it does say This feature is being fine-tuned, so you   
   might get unexpected results of blocked images when you open Pixel Studio,    
   but I didn't think that would mean showing me somebody without any skin!    
      
   Pixel Studio also did a far better job at generating images of people in    
   other professions than athlete, although it does seem to default to males    
   when I asked to see things like a doctor, a paramedic, or a police officer.   
      
   Pixel Studio is Google's on-board AI image generation app included on Pixel 9   
   phones - it wont work on earlier models or other phones. The announcement   
   about people being added to Pixel Studio was made a couple of weeks ago but   
   has only just rolled out.    
      
   As youd expect for an AI image generator, it works from a text prompt. You   
   simply type in what you want to see and Pixel Studio generates an image for   
   you. For comparison, Apples Image Playground does a similar job, but on the   
   iPhone.    
      
   Compared to Image Playground, which seems to only be able to produce cutesy,   
   cartoon-like images, Pixel Studio can produce much more realistic images.    
      
   By enabling proper photo-realistic human AI character generation, Google is   
   treating the Pixel Studio app more like the best AI image generators , like   
   say Midjourney or Imagen 3.    
      
   Of course, Pixel Studio can make cartoon images too, if you ask it to. It   
   defaults to photo-realistic for images, but you can ask for things to be   
   generated in a cartoon style or in a watercolor painting style, etc.   
      
   Things have improved for AI image generation recently. Google has just added   
   native image generation and editing to its Gemini AI, however, its currently   
   only available inside Google AI Studio , its developer tool, which is free to   
   access, but not as easy to use as the main Gemini app.   
      
   ChatGPT has also just added native image generation to its 4o model, and Grok   
   3 can now also edit images .   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/pixel-studio-on-th   
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