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…
Several years ago? That was barely 2.5 years ago. And nobody really cared. It was just a story for one news cycle. And they didn’t about the moon replacement. They cared about the lie, claiming that it was still their actual picture. As long as the company is honest about lying people are fine with it. They’ll even believe it’s real. Rump taught us that.
several can mean 2-5 years, right? Or are you one of those people who insist on a distinction between couple, few, many, and several?
Sure it can. Just like one can mean anything between 27 and 7649.