That one isn't at all surprising. It shouldn't be able to generate images of copyrighted content (ideally).
It's less about copyrighted content and more about the fact that the app just straight up won't scrape the Internet at all due to its on-device requirement, which puts it at a massive disadvantage over other similar AI image generation services.
Could it be that it only shows the photos of you where the face fills out a larg enough portion of the image, i. e.clearly identifiable portraits? As this is also the message you get when dragging and dropping such an image directly into Image Playground.
Unsure, but to test, I took a selfie and cropped it to just show my face only and it still doesn't show up. I have to do the "choose a photo" option to get it.
It pulls from the "People & Pets" section of your photo library. If that hasn't auto detected your face, you have to go in and manually add it. Check the "Add someone to the People & Pets album" section of this page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108795
I think they knew, but investor hype took over and every major company had to have an answer for it or face punishment. So, Apple knew they didn't have a lot of value to add to the AI space which is why I believe they didn't have (and still don't have) a complete software suite of products for it... It's because it really isn't needed that much. But, it was needed by investors, so here we are.
But that’s the problem. Why they didn’t have anything to add to the AI space? ChatGPT caught them all off guard but Apple is in a way worse position because they don’t have a search engine to build from like Microsoft or Google. Even Microsoft quickly realized it and invested a lot of money on ChatGPT. What apple is doing is just half baked and will be another Apple Maps and Siri scenario where they just won’t be able to catch up, never. Do you think apple is even close to catch up with chat gpt? What about googles Veo 2?
“People that are really serious about software should make their own hardware” I really don’t know how apple got this backwards now. They are serious about hardware but aren’t about software. They are so behind on every front, you can’t say anything that apple has that competitors don’t. The head of software should have been replaced 10 years ago, if they don’t after this obvious omission then nothing will change. How can you be the head of software and not know where the market was going?
Yes. I'd be happy if they spent time fixing things like trying to auto-correct proper nouns rather than this nonsense. I've had people's names changed because Apple apparently wanted them to be something else. So stupid.
People don't buy $1000+ phones with the primary objective to entertain their kids - they should focus on stuff that is actually useful for the owner.
You're right of course. But LLMs aren't Apple's lane, which was my point. It is needed, but Apple hasn't brought much useful proprietary tech to the table, i.e. Image Playground.
