{"id":14727,"date":"2025-04-12T21:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14727\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T21:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T21:06:09","slug":"google-is-working-on-an-ai-meme-generator-for-gboard-and-its-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/14727\/","title":{"rendered":"Google is working on an AI meme generator for Gboard, and it\u2019s horrible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\"  title=\"your meme is bad\"  alt=\"your meme is bad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/your-meme-is-bad.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google is working on \u201cmeme studio\u201d for Gboard.<\/li>\n<li>The feature lets users generate memes manually or using AI.<\/li>\n<li>The AI part of the feature is currently not very good, often generating nonsensical text and picking weird base images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a proud Gen-Zer, I enjoy memes quite a lot, so when I found out that Google is working on an AI-powered meme generator for Gboard, I was excited to try it. The feature promises to take a prompt, pick a base image, and write a fitting caption for it. Even though current AI is still just glorified autocorrect, it seems good enough that it should be able to generate memes just fine. Unfortunately, in reality, the end product is downright terrible.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a source inside Google, Android Authority was able to explore an in-development version of the feature.<\/p>\n<p>\nYou\u2019re reading an <strong>Authority Insights<\/strong> story. Discover <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/tag\/authority-insights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authority Insights<\/a> for more exclusive reports, app teardowns, leaks, and in-depth tech coverage you won\u2019t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s idea of what a meme should be<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the \u201cmeme studio\u201d (as it\u2019s called internally at Google) is to let users create memes in a simple way. There are two options available \u2014 the first is \u201ccustom,\u201d which lets you pick a base image and write your own captions.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 4\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_22_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a choice of hundreds (if not thousands) of base images, as well as an option to upload your own. It seems like Google has somehow automated the process of finding and labeling these base images.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 3\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_20_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After picking a base image, it\u2019s brought in to the editor. It is pretty rudimentary, only allowing moving, rotating, and the scaling of text, as well as adding extra captions. The font and the color of the text cannot be changed. When you\u2019re done, you can save your creation to the collection in Gboard, or send it (which also saves it).<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 2\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_19_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 8\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_17_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The much more interesting option is \u201cgenerate,\u201d where you ask AI to pick the base image and generate the captions based on a topic. There are a few suggestions to choose from and a field to write one from scratch. The feature is server-side, requiring an internet connection.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 1\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_18_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After picking a topic, the request will be processed. What\u2019s intriguing is that the loading spinner doesn\u2019t resemble any current Material You components and could be a part of \u201cBC25\u201d or \u201cbluechip 25,\u201d a potential refresh to Material You. We\u2019ve also seen it referred to as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-expressive-settings-3533796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressive design<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, you\u2019re presented with several options. After picking one, you\u2019re taken to the same editor as before, except with an option to regenerate the caption.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 7\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_16_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The feature obviously has advanced safeguards and filters in place, to avoid explicit or offensive content. Unfortunately, a lot of innocuous requests also get caught in the filter, resulting in no results being generated.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Ch\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  title=\"Gboard meme generation 6\"  alt=\"Gboard meme generation 6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/photo_8_2025-04-10_23-47-32.jpg\"\/>Yeah, no<\/p>\n<p>The quality of the memes generated by the tool is questionable at best. As a young person who spends around 3 hours on Twitter (I refuse to call it X), I am familiar with the culture and humor of my generation, and it\u2019s definitely not like this. I feel like the only way this could be used is for making ironically bad memes, but that\u2019s it. The filtering also makes it hard to actually create something interesting, and the lack of options in the editor doesn\u2019t help either. Memes always evolve, and these days, they often play with the format or make meta changes. Being limited to one font and format makes it basically impossible for this feature to be useful.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its outdated format and other limitations, Google&#8217;s new meme generation tool isn&#8217;t very useful.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m guessing Google mostly made this feature for older people, but I feel it\u2019s not even that great for that purpose. The base image picked by AI rarely makes any sense in the context of the caption; it often seems entirely random. The quality of the generated captions is also mediocre at best. It\u2019s worth remembering this is an early version of the feature, so that might still improve \u2014 if meme studio ever launches at all.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a random selection of memes I generated while testing the feature. I hope it makes you laugh (it won\u2019t).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, Google will improve the quality of this feature before it considers launching it. At this time, we don\u2019t know when it\u2019s intended to arrive.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about the Gboard meme generation feature?<\/p>\n<p>104 votes<\/p>\n<p>It looks useful, I\u2019ll use it<\/p>\n<p>8%<\/p>\n<p>It could be useful sometimes<\/p>\n<p>15%<\/p>\n<p>It seems useless to me<\/p>\n<p>18%<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an abomination that shouldn\u2019t exist<\/p>\n<p>59%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TL;DR Google is working on \u201cmeme studio\u201d for Gboard. 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