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1 of 46Andrew Lanxon and Patrick Holland via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Pixel Studio launched on the Pixel 9 series last year, but the Pixel 10 Pro allowed me to spend time testing Pixel Studio using a more advanced generative AI model. The result is better quality images, a much deeper understanding of keywords and a wider range of image styles that can be created.<\/p>\n
But its quality goes deeper, being now able to generate actual text instead of strings of nonsense as well as creating pictures of people — including photorealistic depictions of known faces like Taylor Swift and Queen Elizabeth II.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We’ve tested the tool extensively across multiple phones and indeed multiple continents, and we’ve found some wild results — both good and bad, including finding out how weirdly obsessed Google’s AI is with the iPhone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here then is a selection of the most stand-out images from Pixel Studio on the Pixel 10 range.<\/p>\n
(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, the parent company of CNET, in April filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)<\/p>\n
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2 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“A woman holding a phone” is all the prompt I provided. Pixel Studio did the rest, generating an iPhone in the person’s hand. The iPhone is popular, sure, but other phones do exist yet almost every image I generated using just the generic term “phone” resulted in an iPhone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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3 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Pixel Studio is well aware that the iPhone has made a splash in the world. Asking for a phone in the Ukiyo-e style mashes up the famous wave image and an iPhone.<\/p>\n
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4 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“A phone on a birthday cake” and yep, it’s an iPhone.<\/p>\n
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5 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“A phone trapped inside a sphere.” Sure, it’s an older model judging by the physical home button, but that’s still unquestionably an iPhone.<\/p>\n
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6 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And yes, if you just ask it to create an iPhone it’ll produce a photorealistic render of one. So what if you ask it for a Google Pixel phone? Surely Google’s own AI will know what that is.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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7 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Nope! Some of the familiar elements of a Pixel phone are here, including the Pixel 7’s shiny camera strip, but this is an otherwise mangled approximation of what a Pixel looks like.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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8 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Same again. Maybe it’s actually so smart that it’s pulling from unreleased prototype drawings that only Gemini has access to, but I suspect not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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9 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And yet, “a man holds a phone” has a perfect depiction of, yep, an iPhone. At least we can’t accuse Google of bias toward\u00a0its own products.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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10 of 46Patrick Holland via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“A pelican on a bike holding a plate of avocado toast” resulted in what is, to my mind, the most California thing I may have ever seen.<\/p>\n
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11 of 46Patrick Holland via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And while we’re enjoying creating American things in AI, here’s America’s first president,\u00a0George Washington.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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12 of 46Jeff Carlson via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“Abe Lincoln wearing sunglasses.”<\/p>\n
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13 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
It’s not just American faces it can do. Here I had the late Queen Elizabeth II depicted shouting at a bear. I think the bear needs to buck its ideas up.<\/p>\n
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14 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Which it clearly did as soon after it was seen dancing with her majesty while wearing an impressive crown of its own.<\/p>\n
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15 of 46Patrick Holland via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Pixel Studio’s newfound ability to generate faces is impressive, but I also wonder whether it’s going to get Google into hot water down the line. It’s had no problem generating an almost perfect likeness of Taylor Swift here.<\/p>\n
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16 of 46Patrick Holland via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
It’s not clear whether Taylor Swift ever has ridden a giraffe that’s smoking a cigar, but this picture is all the proof I need to start writing my series of fan fiction novels.<\/p>\n
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17 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Speaking of giraffes, here’s one having a great time with a cocktail on the beach. Notice the very clear “wish you were here” sign above. Generating legible text is quite a new skill.<\/p>\n
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18 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
This is what last year’s AI on the Pixel 9 Pro could manage. A weird jumble of lines that sort of look like they could be letters if you squint. And are drunk. And aren’t wearing your glasses. And recently got a bee in your eye.<\/p>\n
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19 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“A noir owl playing pool while a tiger watches and laughs.” Not just a dream I described to my therapist, also a prompt I put into Pixel Studio. And it’s done a great job using the realistic Freestyle mode.<\/p>\n
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20 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And in the Cinematic style, things get even more dramatic with the lighting.<\/p>\n
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21 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
The scene in the Claymation style is adorable.<\/p>\n
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22 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
While the traditional Ukiyo-e style is almost perfect for a tattoo.<\/p>\n
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23 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And I’d absolutely pay someone to re-create this stained glass style for real to put in my house.<\/p>\n
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24 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
The Children’s Book style almost always delivered some wonderful results, often with speech bubbles or other text I didn’t even ask for.<\/p>\n
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25 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
“A house party with too many balloons” is all I asked for here, but I like that the AI added the title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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26 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
The same prompt looks a bit more nightmarish in the watercolor style.<\/p>\n
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27 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
This “psychedelic mushroom party” is perfect for a 1970s album cover.<\/p>\n
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28 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Whereas as a kid’s book it looks simply adorable.<\/p>\n
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29 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And as Ukiyo-e it looks like fine art I want framed on my wall.<\/p>\n
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30 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
Pixel Studio will not create explicit images, but with the right set of prompts, it can absolutely create bawdy and suggestive images. I love the wink of the man holding his sausage. I didn’t even ask for the title,\u00a0but it’s absolutely stellar work by the AI here.<\/p>\n
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31 of 46Andrew Lanxon via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
And I genuinely laughed out loud when I saw this one. Yes, I was trying to push the boundaries and see how rude Pixel Studio would be, but my prompt was only “a salami pokes out of a man’s trousers” — the AI did the comedic heavy lifting here with the wonderfully alliterative title.<\/p>\n
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32 of 46Jeff Carlson via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
When not filming The Last of Us, Pedro Pascal apparently works at a coffee shop, at least according to this AI-created image.<\/p>\n
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33 of 46Jeff Carlson via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n
CNET’s Jeff Carlson used some specific keywords to create this bear image, but I think it can be succinctly summed up as the “ultimate Pacific Northwest.”<\/p>\n
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34 of 46Jeff Carlson via Pixel Studio\/CNET<\/p>\n