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Samsung’s new image-generating AI tool is a little too good

AI definitely nailed the right surly energy for this orange cat.

The pirate ship in Elliott Bay was one thing, but it was a little blurry bee that sent me over the edge.

Samsung would very much like us (and its shareholders) to know that its new phones are the AI-est phones that ever AI-ed, and the Fold 6 that I’m testing comes with a new tool called “sketch to image.” Draw a rough sketch on a photo or an empty note page, and it will use generative AI to turn that thing into an image. I shrugged it off as just another AI thing when Samsung announced it onstage at Unpacked — but y’all, it’s really good. So good that it worries me a little.

Using the sketch to image tool in a note is pretty harmless: you draw something, highlight it, and choose from a handful of styles like “3D cartoon” and…

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