I remember several years back people were mad that a phone brand (can’t remember which one, I think it was Samsung?) was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image. Nowadays, you have phone brands (all of them, not just the one) actively promoting adding people into image, removing people from images, hell, even changing the entire SKY, with little to no reaction from most people. What happened, why doesn’t anyone care anymore?

Of note, I do not feel particularly strongly for or against artificially enhanced smartphone photographs. I’m just wondering why no one is talking about any of this…

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    was claiming to be able to take superzoom photos of the moon, but were actually just replacing the very fuzzy moon with a clear image

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637401/samsung-fake-moon-photos-ai-galaxy-s21-s23-ultra

    is indeed samsung that did this.

    Now you see, that’s the problem there… they were claiming to do X, but were actually doing Y.

    Just as lets say if we did have AI person removal… but you said "actually lets you see what’s behind the person that would obviously be a problem, as obviously that’s actually impossible.

    Likewise you hear space zoom… you have to point the camera at the moon… you assume that the camera is capturing the moon, and the image you are looking at is the moon in real time. Obviously not likely to happen but imagine for a second while you were looking at the moon through your camera, and say a meteor hit the moon leading to an enormous explosion and crater that would be visible through a telescope, or hell maybe something extreme enough that it’s at least partially visible even to the naked eye. The feature as described would let you see it enhanced in more detail than you could with the naked eye, while in reality it would replace the abnormalities and give you a picture of how the moon looks in it’s training data.