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Originally Posted by PB PM Google has been using AI to improve low light images on Pixel phones for years, and we aren’t just talking about noise reduction.

Which, again, is very different. They’re not adding objects and textures that aren’t there.

Originally Posted by PB PM Look we can argue about the finer points of the type image manipulation in photos coming out of different brands, but at the end of the day they are all doing it.

Applying ML to the image pipeline? Yes. But not at this level.

It’s a story because it goes much further than others, and arguably too far. On top of that, Samsung seems to be lying about it. They call it “Space Zoom”, implying it happens thanks to the zoom lens, and they claim “no image overlaying or texture effects are applied”, which this suggests is flat-out false.

(You could argue, “ah, but there’s no literal code path that inserts the moon texture; it’s just that the AI has been trained to think it ought to be inserted”, and to that I say it’s a distinction without a difference. Apple’s Night Mode and Deep Fusion or Google’s Night Light don’t insert additional patrons when you’re taking an indoor photo at a bar. Samsung does, however, appear to be inserting such information.)