AI-generated images are nothing new, but if you've ever wished you could add your own to whatever fanciful image prompts you can dream up, Xiaomi may have the feature for you personal touch to AI images The addition is rather fascinating, but at the same time a bit frightening to think of the possibilities

AI Portrait was announced at MWC 2024 and will be included in the Xiaomi 14 series The clear purpose of this feature is to create a photo-realistic AI model of you, using your own photos Or maybe someone you know If you have at least 20 photos of your subject, you can create an AI model using this feature

With this model, you can give the AI portrait prompts such as "snowy mountains" or "by the beach" Xiaomi 14's generative AI will then create a series of images that bring your AI model to the forefront, from which you can choose

The phone also has a generic AI image generator, analogous to platforms like Dall-E Here, one chooses a generic male or female model to appear in the generated image

While this type of functionality is interesting, things can quickly get creepy, especially if you want to create an image featuring yourself there has already been much discussion about the ethics of using AI to create fake images of celebrities and public figures, but there is no reason why a random Mix in a random person, and the concerns are elevated to a whole new level Unfortunately, there are people out there who are willing to use the latest technology for evil, and they are ruining it for the rest of us

We were told that, as with other image generation tools, there will be a limit to the type of content that can be created We don't know what AI platform Xiaomi will use to create new images, but it should not be possible to create offensive images using AI Portrait

This is not the only AI feature Xiaomi has included in the Xiaomi 14 and 14 Ultra In addition to mundane features such as subtitles, translation, and photo search, the phones also feature AI image enhancement, which uses generative AI to add additional images to the borders of a photo

There is no word yet on when the Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Ultra will be available, but they will cost €999 and €1499 respectively in Europe and not in the US