This camera app uses AI to erase people from your photographs

Bye Bye Camera is an iOS app built for the “post-human world,” says Damjanski, a mononymous artist based in New York City who helped create the software. Why post-human? Because it uses AI to remove people from images and paint over their absence. “One joke we always make about it is: ‘finally, you can take a selfie without yourself,’” Damjanski tells The Verge. The app costs $2.99 from the App Store, and, fair warning here, it’s not very good — or at least, it’s not flawless. Far from it. The app is slow and removes people with a great deal of mess, leaving behind a smear of pixels like an AI hit man sending a message. If you’re looking to edit out political opponents from your Instagram, you’d be better off using Photoshop. But if you... Continue reading…