I use Edge periodically for random situations where Firefox, the extensions I use on it, and my personal styles and scripts get in the way of site functionality. For instance, when trying to pay my electric bill each month, the company's website embeds a form hosted by their payment processor. This process doesn't work in Firefox for me. I don't know why, nor do I care enough to try to figure it out, so I switch to Edge and do it there. It ain't worth the hassle for a two-minute task that only happens once a month, you know?
Anyway, Edge needed an update, after which it wanted to show me what was new. I was curious since it's not my main browser, and straight away it showed me a Copilot integration with which I could edit pictures with my words. I almost uploaded my own car so I could ask the magical computer matrices to lower it further, but I thought better of it and searched for the coolest car I'd seen on the road that day: a Honda Prelude. One of the first images that came up in the search results was of an older generation than I'd seen, but I used it anyway because boxy-shaped cars are cool.
I then requested the car be lowered three inches as though on aftermarket coilovers. After a minute or two of processing, here are the results:
Not bad! Though I didn't ask for them, a bunch of other small changes happened as well. This is interesting, in my opinion, because it speaks to the source images on which the AI was trained. Cars that are lowered significantly from their stock ride height usually have other things done to them, and the AI's training picked up on this and biased the resultant image in that direction.
Our bone stock Prelude here got a new front bumper with a lip and some new five-spoke wheels ⸺ generally the superior number of spokes. The windows were slightly tinted and the spoiler got more squared off similar to some European cars of the era . The AI did "forget" to continue it through the back window, though. The interior changed and even the license plate switched states despite the characters themselves remaining the same. And then there's all the modifications to the area surrounding the car.
Here's a version you can hover over to flip between the before and after shots.
There's not much of a point to this post; I just thought this whole thing was neat. I'm still mostly in the "AI will ruin most regular folks' livelihoods while making a handful of people a lot of money" camp. Frank Herbert was a pretty smart guy, and he set Dune in a post-AI universe for a reason.