Google Photos' Magic Editor Prohibits Editing of IDs, Faces, and Personal Information in Latest Update

New Pixel 8 feature implements measures to prevent potential forgery and violation of privacy terms, adding explicit error messages when users attempt to manipulate personal documents, human faces or large selections through AI-powered editing tool.

• Google's Magic Editor, a new feature on the Pixel 8, now includes measures to prevent potential forgery or infringement of privacy terms. Users are blocked from making certain edits, including on personal documents and human faces.
• Users can not use the Magic Editor to edit human faces, body parts, identifiable personal information, or images that are too large for the app to process. The app also prohibits editing photos of identifiers such as IDs or other forgeable documents.
• The app provides explicit error messages when users try to manipulate these types of data, upgrading from an older version that allowed some of these edits without providing digestible user feedback.
• Magic Editor is not intended for forgery or illegal activities. Any document forged using it would be easy to identify, making it highly unsuitable for fraudulent activities.
• There is speculation about text-prompt-based image generation coming to Google Photos. If it does, the apparatus in place could reject generating images based on some of the words mentioned in the prompt.

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