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Google is about to get more transparent about Magic Editor’s creative limits.

Google’s Magic Editor is already capable of mind-bending photo retouching, but occasionally it’ll refuse to do certain edits. When this happens, it displays a vague message about violating Google’s AI terms.

It seems Google will soon be clearer about why Magic Editor sometimes abandons a task. Android Authority spotted strings in the Google Photos app about the tool being unable to manipulate “photos of ID cards, receipts, images with personally identifiable information, human faces, and body parts.”

The site also found clues that Magic Editor could allow custom generative text prompts, giving users even more creative freedom. Because after all, what is a photo?

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