Google Photos Enhances Memories View with AI-Generated Content
Google Photos has received a significant update that incorporates generative AI into its popular Memories feature. This feature already generates scrapbook montages using users’ photos and videos, but now these montages will be more personalized, organizing them based on the user’s life. Enhanced AI algorithms will categorize the images into relevant groups, such as a recent vacation, and create an appealing title for the montage. While the app already performs these functions to some extent, the update is expected to bring about a substantial improvement. However, as with any AI technology, it may not always be accurate. Therefore, users have the option to rename collections or edit montages if necessary.
All of these scrapbook montages are now gathered in their own view called Memories, so you only interact with them when you want to. Before this, Google Photos users received a push notification whenever a new scrapbook was readable. Just click on the Memories tab and get started. The new tab also offers access to previously released features, such as adding music to a scrapbook montage and sharing memories through the app.
The update even allows for co-creation of these scrapbook entries among friends and family. Invite someone to collaborate and they can send their own photos and videos. All parties can remove photos that don’t match the theme or make simple edits, and the system itself recommends photos based on geotagging and the like. As for more powerful sharing options, Google says you’ll soon be able to save these collections as popular video formats to send via Messages and social media apps.
The new Google Photos update is starting to roll out in the US today, but the company says it will be a few months before the actual global rollout. This isn’t the first time this year that the company has squeezed generative AI into Google Photos. In May, Google used the technology to improve its Magic Editor suite of tools, which uses artificial intelligence to remove unwanted objects from photos.
