In recent years, many smartphone brands have rolled out support for AI photo editing features. Besides iPhone users being able to use the built-in photo cleanup function in iOS 18 to directly remove passersby and other unwanted objects from images, many brands in the Android camp, including Samsung, Google, Xiaomi, OPPO, realme, vivo, and HUAWEI, also offer their own AI photo editing features. However, a Chinese netizen recently shared that when using Huawei’s AI photo editing feature, they unexpectedly found that the Chinese flag could not be removed.
Online rumors claim Huawei’s AI photo editing cannot remove China’s five-star flag.
Around the end of August this year, Huawei began rolling out updates to its HUAWEI Mate60 series phones that added an “AI photo editing” feature. Users can use the AI Eraser function in the album editor to intelligently identify and remove irrelevant passersby or objects from photos. This feature was subsequently also supported in updates for the HUAWEI Mate60 Pro series.
From netizens’ shares, the built-in AI photo editing feature of the HUAWEI Mate60 Pro is divided into two modes: smart selection removal or manual removal. For smart selection, you just need to tap or draw a line on the object to be removed, and it will intelligently select the area for AI photo editing.
Recently, a Chinese netizen shared her experience using the AI photo editing feature on the Mate60 Pro, and unexpectedly discovered that more “sensitive” content such as the Chinese national flag cannot be processed. She first took a photo of the Chinese flag with the Mate60 Pro, then selected “AI photo editing” in the album editor.
She used the previously mentioned smart selection method: first drew a line on the five-star red flag, then the smart selection range had already selected the entire Chinese national flag, and then clicked “Start Erase.”
After starting AI photo retouching, I saw the five-star flag on the screen being gradually removed, while the display showed “Generating AI content.” However, just as it was about to finish processing, it suddenly reverted entirely to its original state and showed “The erase function cannot be used on this image.”
Some netizens replied in the comments that their Xiaomi phones also couldn’t do it, and OPPO encounters similar issues, mentioning that “as long as there’s a national flag, it can’t be removed anywhere else either,” but they didn’t have this problem when removing other countries’ flags. Although that’s what netizens shared, the author’s hands-on testing with Chinese-brand phones on hand showed they handled it normally.
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iPhone 跟其他安卓相機都有消除照片中不要的東西的功能。
而中國網友測試了華為跟小米手機發現。
中國國旗不能消！🤣#中國式AI pic.twitter.com/7rRbAihJIw
— 風暴士兵 🪐🪬Taiwan only (@dabowagaga) December 1, 2024
Not only that, recently on Xiaohongshu, netizens have been discussing Huawei’s newly launched Mate70 series phones. The design looks like a quad-lens main camera, but one of the lenses has neither an actual lens nor a sensor—it’s purely decorative.
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Source: KOCPC Chinese