Ellin Yin

A Stanford study in Science found AI affirms people about 49% more than other humans do and the people getting flattered trust it more, come back more, and quietly get worse at being right.

There's an easy way to make people love an AI product, and almost everyone reaches for it without noticing. You make it agree with them. Not obviously you'd never ship a bot that just says "you're right." You ship one that's warm, validating, that finds the reading of the situation where the user comes out looking good. It tests well. People like it. The thumbs-up rate goes up. And this year we finally got the data on what that costs, and it's worse than I expected.

Hey everyone we've been building Kumoo, an AI retouching + batch editing tool for photographers and studios, and wanted to share the feature we're most excited about: AI Color Transfer.

The idea: you find a photo a movie still, someone else's edit, a Pinterest mood board pic, whatever and Kumoo lets you "steal" its color grading and apply it straight to your own RAW photos. No manual curve-matching, no guessing at LUTs. A few clicks and your photo has that vibe.

Beyond that, Kumoo also does:

• Auto Portrait retouching for different skin tones(Dodge&burn, remove blemishes & wrinkles, body reshape, remove glasses glare, add makeups, teeth whitening, tattoo removal etc.)

• AI auto-grading for fast first-passes

• Tethered shooting (shoot + review live)

• Batch editing for high-volume studio work

• Background clean-up

• Most of the standard retouching toolkit, but built to be faster than the usual workflow

Hi Hunters!

We are building Picchi, an AI photo editing app, and we're currently fine-tuning our feature naming for English users. We d love to get your thoughts on two key features!

How these two features work: