<story><title>Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>I think the main use case is &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m a crummy photographer and all I want is something to remind me that I was there&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Look at my cat. Look! Look at her!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s me. I&amp;#x27;m a lousy photographer, as evidenced by all of the photos I shot back when film actually recorded what you pointed it at. My photography has been vastly improved by AI. It hasn&amp;#x27;t yet reached the point of &amp;quot;No, you idiot, don&amp;#x27;t take a picture of that. Go left. Left! Ya know what, I&amp;#x27;m just gonna make something up,&amp;quot; but it should.&lt;p&gt;I imagine there will remain a use case for people who can actually compose good shots. For the remaining 99% of us, we&amp;#x27;ll use &amp;quot;Send the camera on vacation and stay home; it&amp;#x27;s cheaper and produces better pictures&amp;quot; mode.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>Basically this.. As &amp;quot;neat&amp;quot; as AI &amp;quot;improvement&amp;quot; is, I don&amp;#x27;t think it has any actual value, I can&amp;#x27;t come up with any use-case where I can accept it. &amp;quot;Make pictures look good by just hallucinating stuff&amp;quot; is one of the harder ones to explain, but you did it well..&lt;p&gt;Another thing, pictures for proof and documentation, maybe not when they&amp;#x27;re taken but after the fact, for historical reasons, or forensics.. We can&amp;#x27;t have every picture automatically compromised as soon as it&amp;#x27;s taken. (Yes, I know that photoshop is a thing, but that&amp;#x27;s a very deliberate action, which I believe it should be)</text></item><item><author>whatisthiseven</author><text>Imagine this future:&lt;p&gt;Sensor quality in phones goes down, AI makes up for it because good sensors are expensive, but compute time in the cloud on Samsung owned servers is cheap. You take a picture on a crappy camera, and Samsung uses AI to &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; everything. It knows what stop signs, roadways, busses, cars, stop lights, and more &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; look like, and so it just uses AI to replace all the textures.&lt;p&gt;Samsung sells what&amp;#x27;s on the image to advertisers and more with the hallucinated data. People can&amp;#x27;t tell the difference and don&amp;#x27;t know. They &amp;quot;just want a good looking picture&amp;quot;. People further use AI to alter images for virtual likes on Tiktok and Insta.&lt;p&gt;This faked data, submitted by users as &amp;quot;real pics in real places&amp;quot; is further used to train AI models that all seem to think objects further away have greater detail, clarity, and cleanliness than they should.&lt;p&gt;You look at a picture of a park you took, years before, and could have sworn the flowers were more pink, and not as red. You are assured, by your friend who knows it all, that people&amp;#x27;s memories are fallible; hallucinating details, colors, objects, sizes, and more. The image, your friend assures you further? &amp;quot;Advanced tech captured its pure form perfectly&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And thus, everyone will demand more clarity, precision, details, and color where their eyes don&amp;#x27;t remember seeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>taffronaut</author><text>As a kid I was taking a photo in a tourist spot with a film camera and standard 50mm lens. An elderly local guy grabbed me by the shoulder as I framed the photo. We shared no common language and he (not so gently) pulled me over to where I should stand to get the better shot.</text></comment>
<story><title>Samsung “space zoom” moon shots are fake, and here is the proof</title><url>https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfengel</author><text>I think the main use case is &amp;quot;I&amp;#x27;m a crummy photographer and all I want is something to remind me that I was there&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Look at my cat. Look! Look at her!&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s me. I&amp;#x27;m a lousy photographer, as evidenced by all of the photos I shot back when film actually recorded what you pointed it at. My photography has been vastly improved by AI. It hasn&amp;#x27;t yet reached the point of &amp;quot;No, you idiot, don&amp;#x27;t take a picture of that. Go left. Left! Ya know what, I&amp;#x27;m just gonna make something up,&amp;quot; but it should.&lt;p&gt;I imagine there will remain a use case for people who can actually compose good shots. For the remaining 99% of us, we&amp;#x27;ll use &amp;quot;Send the camera on vacation and stay home; it&amp;#x27;s cheaper and produces better pictures&amp;quot; mode.</text></item><item><author>dusted</author><text>Basically this.. As &amp;quot;neat&amp;quot; as AI &amp;quot;improvement&amp;quot; is, I don&amp;#x27;t think it has any actual value, I can&amp;#x27;t come up with any use-case where I can accept it. &amp;quot;Make pictures look good by just hallucinating stuff&amp;quot; is one of the harder ones to explain, but you did it well..&lt;p&gt;Another thing, pictures for proof and documentation, maybe not when they&amp;#x27;re taken but after the fact, for historical reasons, or forensics.. We can&amp;#x27;t have every picture automatically compromised as soon as it&amp;#x27;s taken. (Yes, I know that photoshop is a thing, but that&amp;#x27;s a very deliberate action, which I believe it should be)</text></item><item><author>whatisthiseven</author><text>Imagine this future:&lt;p&gt;Sensor quality in phones goes down, AI makes up for it because good sensors are expensive, but compute time in the cloud on Samsung owned servers is cheap. You take a picture on a crappy camera, and Samsung uses AI to &amp;quot;fix&amp;quot; everything. It knows what stop signs, roadways, busses, cars, stop lights, and more &lt;i&gt;should&lt;/i&gt; look like, and so it just uses AI to replace all the textures.&lt;p&gt;Samsung sells what&amp;#x27;s on the image to advertisers and more with the hallucinated data. People can&amp;#x27;t tell the difference and don&amp;#x27;t know. They &amp;quot;just want a good looking picture&amp;quot;. People further use AI to alter images for virtual likes on Tiktok and Insta.&lt;p&gt;This faked data, submitted by users as &amp;quot;real pics in real places&amp;quot; is further used to train AI models that all seem to think objects further away have greater detail, clarity, and cleanliness than they should.&lt;p&gt;You look at a picture of a park you took, years before, and could have sworn the flowers were more pink, and not as red. You are assured, by your friend who knows it all, that people&amp;#x27;s memories are fallible; hallucinating details, colors, objects, sizes, and more. The image, your friend assures you further? &amp;quot;Advanced tech captured its pure form perfectly&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;And thus, everyone will demand more clarity, precision, details, and color where their eyes don&amp;#x27;t remember seeing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mysterydip</author><text>That would actually be a useful feature, I&amp;#x27;m aiming the camera but based on what makes &amp;quot;good professional&amp;quot; photos, it suggests &amp;quot;move to the left so you frame the picture well&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;those two people should be more spread out so its not one person with two heads&amp;quot; etc, kindof like lane warnings on cars.</text></comment>