Igor Gaspar holds the new Pixel 9 phone by Google, showing the "Add Me" feature which allows you to generate an AI photo by merging two separate photos, in Santa Cruz, California, on September 6, 2024. Fascination tinged with concern was a common reaction as people in Santa Cruz dabbled with a Pixel 9 and its capabilities, including the ability to "add" oneself to pictures and having a whip-smart digital assistant at one's command. (Photo by Jenn CAIN / AFP) (Photo by JENN CAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Gail Pellerin, California State Assembly member from the 28th district, looks at the new Pixel 9 phone by Google in Santa Cruz, California, on September 6, 2024. Fascination tinged with concern was a common reaction as people in Santa Cruz dabbled with a Pixel 9 and its capabilities, including the ability to "add" oneself to pictures and having a whip-smart digital assistant at one's command. (Photo by Jenn CAIN / AFP) (Photo by JENN CAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Leilani H. Gilpin, Computer Science Professor at UC Santa Cruz, holds up the new Pixel 9 phone by Google in Santa Cruz, California, on September 6, 2024. The phone displays a banana slug dressed in a Hawaiian shirt after Leilani verbally asked it to create AI art of a "banana slug with a Hawaiian shirt." Fascination tinged with concern was a common reaction as people in Santa Cruz dabbled with a Pixel 9 and its capabilities, including the ability to "add" oneself to pictures and having a whip-smart digital assistant at one's command. (Photo by Jenn CAIN / AFP) (Photo by JENN CAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Igor Gaspar holds the new Pixel 9 phone by Google in Santa Cruz, California, on September 6, 2024. Fascination tinged with concern was a common reaction as people in Santa Cruz dabbled with a Pixel 9 and its capabilities, including the ability to "add" oneself to pictures and having a whip-smart digital assistant at one's command. (Photo by Jenn CAIN / AFP) (Photo by JENN CAIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Ronnie Jefferies paints the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School to help cool it by making it more reflective, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Ronnie Jefferies works on the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School where it is being repainted to help cool it by making it more reflective, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Ronnie Jefferies works on the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School where it is being repainted to help cool it by making it more reflective, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Ronnie Jefferies paints the parking lot at Science, Arts and Entrepreneurship School to help cool it by making it more reflective, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024, in Mableton, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)