Comment by a2128 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by a2128 | Hacker News Reader

    More ways to express yourself with images.
    Mix emoji and descriptions to make something brand-new. In Image Playground, discover additional ChatGPT styles. And have even more control when making images inspired by family and friends using Genmoji and Image Playground.

I have to say, is AI image generation really the job of an operating system? I've also seen this sort of stuff on Pixel Android, it's now built into mspaint on Windows 11 and there's also copilot everywhere. Does anyone even use this stuff? It requires constant updates and maintenance to support newer models, in my experience it gets stale and outdated much more quickly. I think it would be better served by the user just opening their web browser to go to ChatGPT (or other service) which receives latest model upgrades first. Am I going crazy or is this just a horrible idea?

It always seemed quite cringe to me. A use it once and "Ehh I guess it works and is cool, sure" and then never touch it again sort of feature.

Other than old people that always send gifs on Facebook and children who this is probably one of the only AI art things they have access too, idk who else uses this.

If one tech giant has it then they need to too for feature parity. Not a whole lot of use cases for generative AI for the masses, so if someone comes up with one, gotta copy!

People want this.

Remember, those of us on HN aren't really the target demographic. They are targeting people who use their device(s) for fun and entertainment.

This seems more of a toy. I hope we get to eventually able to use a local Apple LLM model with more flexibility.

Something quite cool they shipped with the 26 family of operating systems is a new system-level API to let developers access the built-in on-device models directly: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/FoundationModels

Agreed.

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