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How to use Apple's AI image tool
Image Playground is super-fun to play with.
Leander Kahney
November 21, 2024
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Last night I made a bunch of AI images of myself and my family using the new Image Playground app, which is currently in beta testing in iOS 18.2.
The overwhelming reaction from my wife, kids and mom was horror and revulsion!
“Horrible,” “awful” and “terrible” were the reactions on the family text after I shared them.
Most of the images I generated (using tagged pictures from my Photos library as starting points) were barely recognizable as portraits of their subjects.
My daughter — an exacting critic — deemed only one of them OK. The subject, my son Olin, was not a fan.
I didn’t care much for them either, tbh. I’m not a fan of the cartoonish style Apple chose, which is clearly intended to head off any deepfake controversies.
Still, it was a lot of fun to play around with. Here’s all you need to know to get started with Apple’s new AI art tool.
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— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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