Samsung Galaxy S26 Promises AI Photo Help After Google’s ‘Oops’ Moments
KEY POINTS
- •Google introduced AI editing tools starting in May 2023, allowing background changes like blue skies and crowd removal.
- •However, Pixel 9’s natural language AI editing soon began generating misleading or harmful images, including helicopter crashes and bombs.
- •Samsung responded in February 2024 with Galaxy S26’s Photo Assist AI to mitigate Google’s visual chaos at the Unpacked event.
In a dazzling display of tech evolution, Google’s Pixel 9 quietly shuffled in 2023, unleashing AI photo-editing that slowly graduated from making skies bluer to accidentally inventing helicopter crashes and smoking bombs with reckless abandon. Fast forward to February’s Samsung Unpacked, where the Galaxy S26 swaggered in promising 'Photo Assist' AI to clean up Google’s imaginative mess. We love seeing tech giants race not just to outdo each other—but to rescue humanity from their unintended AI nightmares. Meanwhile, Backsst Boys made a cameo at the Sphere, proving some things—even confusing AI photo edits—are fun to witness live. It's the future, folks: AI that can create chaos but also offers a polite digital mop-up service.
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(1 of 3)Nothing screams ‘cutting-edge innovation’ like AI that invents fake disasters then another phone rushing in to play digital firefighter.
When your phone’s AI casually invents helicopter crashes but Samsung's new AI is there to say, 'Don’t worry, I got this!'
Google Pixel 9's AI went full Hollywood blockbuster with fake bombing scenes; Galaxy S26 arrives as the overly apologetic sequel.
Source: Theverge | Published: 3/31/2026 | Author: Allison Johnson
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