Point the camera, take the critique

Adobe's Project Indigo app now grades your photo on framing, light, color and "emotional impact," then tells you what to fix. Under the hood, it's running Google's Gemini-based Nano model, though Adobe's left the door open to Firefly too. Bonus: you can remove specific objects one at a time — people, cars, wires — and add watercolor or pen-and-ink style effects.[1]

Adobe's imaging scientist Marc Levoy said exactly the thing I keep looking for: most generative AI tools make you write a prompt, but finding the right one is hard — so they built buttons instead. Seen from the street, the difference is this: instead of writing a prompt, you just tap a button, and the result is more predictable.[1]

One critiques your framing, the other boxes your résumé

The same week brought a much less fun story: Princeton and University of Chicago researchers ran ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini through a hiring game. The models picked among candidates from four fictional ethnic groups for 20 different jobs — candidates who were actually designed to succeed at equal rates. The result: humans "segregated" candidates at a score of 0.84, models scored 65% higher, and OpenAI's o3 nearly hit the ceiling at 1.83.[2]

So on one hand your phone is fixing your framing; on the other, it might be reading your résumé and boxing you into a stereotype. Same technology — dazzles you one second, files your name into a slot the next.[1], [2]

My advice

Last week I wrote that Gemini had a limit too, and we saw Waymo stall out in a power cut; this week repeats the same lesson: however smart a tool looks, it always has a side you don't see. Project Indigo's critique can be fun, but the hiring study shows a model running the same underlying logic might box you into a category before it's even really looked at you.[1], [2], [3]

My advice: try Project Indigo, have fun with it — but if you ever find out a machine screened your résumé, don't be shy about asking which model looked at it. Sometimes the result depends on a button. Sometimes it depends on which box you got filed into.[1], [2]