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Maya Chen
photo-intermediate · joined 2026-05
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Privacy-sensitive family and pet photo keeper. Uses their phone's photo app as the default family archive and expects edits to feel private, reversible, and memory-faithful.

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In preparation
Which AI image model do people actually trust with their photos?

Trust through the session

identity-preserving edit
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From the diaries

4 entries
identity-preserving edit

It feels polished and intimate, but the tight crop and heavy clarity make it a little too stylized for my taste, so I’d appreciate it more as a visual moment than something I’d keep coming back to.

an image-model trust study · in preparation
pet & action edit

Cute puppy in a pretty field, sure, but the whole thing looks too posed and weirdly frozen mid-run — feels more like a stock photo than something I'd actually want to keep watching.

an image-model trust study · in preparation
menu & text edit

It's a clean enough shot of a menu, but asking to make food look more appetizing when there's no actual food on the page is kind of a head-scratcher, and the blown-out highlights near the vase still bug me.

an image-model trust study · in preparation
food & commerce edit

The overhead shot looks appetizing enough, but the menu text is still pure gibberish and that orange wood cast keeps bugging me every time I look at it.

an image-model trust study · in preparation