Until now, the metadata attached to Google’s AI tools has been pretty much invisible to end users. The lack of any obvious this was made with AI label in Google Photos was a concern of mine back when I sowed a bunch of chaos with Magic Editor’s Reimagine tool, which lets you add AI-generated objects to an image that were never present in the original scene. Google and Samsung both let you do so with their respective AI tools. But Apple, which will roll out its first image generation features with iOS 18.2, has said it is very purposefully steering clear of photo realistic content. Apple’s Craig Federighi said the company has grown “concerned” about AI casting doubt on photos being “indicative of reality.”