Google Photos’ latest feature lets you meme yourself

Google Photos volition present fto you marque memes with your ain images. On Thursday, Google introduced a caller generative AI-powered diagnostic called “Me Meme,” which volition let you to harvester a photograph template and an representation of yourself to make an representation of the meme.

The caller addition, which volition beryllium archetypal disposable to U.S.-based users, was primitively spotted successful improvement past October by the blog Android Authority. It was formally announced by Google via its Photos Community tract connected Thursday.

According to Google, the diagnostic is experimental, truthful generated images “may not perfectly lucifer the archetypal photo.” It suggests uploading well-lit, focused, and front-facing photos to get the champion results.

The summation is meant to conscionable beryllium a amusive mode to research your photos and experimentation with Google’s Gemini AI technology, and specifically Nano Banana. Google’s fashionable AI representation exemplary powers different AI features successful the Google Photos app, similar the quality to re-create images successful caller styles, specified arsenic cartoons oregon paintings.

Though a reasonably unserious addition, each things considered, these types of features assistance punctual users to instrumentality to the Photos app whenever they privation to play astir with AI tools, alternatively than going to a competitor’s product.

Plus, users thin to gravitate toward features that amusement themselves successful AI edits, arsenic OpenAI recovered with its palmy launch of the Sora app, which lets you marque AI videos that tin see yourself and your friends.

“Me Meme” isn’t afloat rolled out, truthful you whitethorn not spot it successful your updated Google Photos app conscionable yet. When available, it volition look nether the “Create” tab, Google says.

To usage the feature, you’ll prime a template oregon upload your own, past pat “add photo” and “Generate.” Google notes that much templates are being added implicit time. After the AI creates the image, you tin prevention the photo, stock it connected different platforms, oregon pat “regenerate” to person it re-imagine the representation a 2nd time.