I tend to compare AI to social media in terms of how it’s going to (negatively) affect society in the long run. I’ll be the first to admit that. But I did want to share a very helpful use of AI in a situation that actually brought someone joy.

One of my podcast hosts I listen to recently had a daughter. And he wanted a picture of his wife and daughter to use as his phone background. But the picture he wanted wasn’t oriented to serve as a good background photo. So he used some app (I forget which one he mentioned) to do a content fill. The tool expanded the original picture (smartly) and filled it out to the point where he could crop it in a portrait orientation. It now worked very well as his phone background image.

That’s awesome, and how it should be. A great (responsible) use of AI.