Apple this fall is taking emoji to an entirely new level. Mac, iPhone, and iPad users will get the ability to create original Genmoji to express themselves this fall. By simply typing a description, their Genmoji appears, along with additional options. Users can even create Genmoji of friends and family based on their photos. Just like emoji, Genmoji can be added inline to messages, or shared as a sticker or reaction in a Tapback.
Tatum Hunter for The Washington Post:
This fall, some iPhone owners will get the power to make custom emojis using AI in iOS 18. They can describe their emoji fever dreams in a search bar in the Messages app, and it will spin up bespoke emojis like a sad cowboy or a corgi wearing a suit of armor.
Apple’s iMessage technology and accompanying blue bubbles hold some serious cultural cache. By adding the potential for unlimited, unhinged emojis, the company could springboard AI emojis to new digital-culture heights. Or it could fail to read the room and change how we communicate for the worse.
“This is the most mainstream version of an emoji image generator we’ve ever seen,” said Keith Broni, editor in chief of the emoji dictionary Emojipedia. It will “open the floodgates” of niche emoji creation.
Apple previewed these “Genmojis” along with a bevy of other artificial intelligence features at its annual developer conference this week, amid pressure to keep up with competitors in the race toward AI adoption. Genmojis will be powered by Apple’s own version of the technology used by other consumer image generators. Users of iOS 18 will also get an “Image Playground” app, where they can generate images in different styles. Both that and Genmojis will be built into Messages.
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MacDailyNews Take: Genmojis will exponentially increase emoji misinterpretation.
On the bright side, we’ll be ushering in a new age of hieroglyphics some 1,600 years after they died out in Egypt! Or, in other “words”: 🐈⬛🔼🇪🇬💀
Also:
Why can’t #Apple use the iPhone's front camera + Machine Learning to just automatically make the best #Memoji possible? Seems like an obvious feature we should have by now. pic.twitter.com/x8EpoaRhlc
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This is it! Peak Gen AI. Billions of dollars spent to create yet more emojis. Wow, impressive.
Now that monumental achievement is complete, maybe Apple can get back to fixing developer tools and Carplay.
And actually blocking blocked emails.
Apple is doing ridiculously awesome things with CarPlay.
Apple will turn automobile “hardware” into a PC-like commodity market running Apple’s OS.
And if Western automakers are reluctant to have Apple own their products’ user experience, there will be plenty of high-quality Chinese and Indian car markers who will jump in with both feet.
The typical Apple FANBOIS defense!
Knee jerk to the rescue touting the good stuff, while totaling ignoring the bad stuff.
You are overqualified to work on Biden’s campaign… 😉
And when hitting play after losing a web-radio connection, NOT playing a song from my collection I didn’t select AND I haven’t played for years.
And, the Home Pod “demanding” to play ONLY music from my collection when clicking “Air Play” web-radio is playing.
Many year beef: spell check’s word suggestions are like Siri…blank stare, or incomplete…but Googling provides correct options 99% of the time.
Instead? So glad my emoji library and “functionality” grows. What would I do w/o this?