Halide + KinoMar 11, 2023

Reddit user ibreakphotos discovers that Samsung's 'Space Zoom' simply replaces user's moon photos with higher-res images of the moon through a clever testing process.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/

This isn't computational photography — it's inserting imagery that simply isn't there.

Samsung "space zoom" moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

**This post has been updated with several additional experiments in newer posts, which address most comments and clarify what exactly is going...

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@halide it’s funny in a schadenfreude way but also a good example of how inward large data models are. Nothing new under the sun, or moon in this case. Killing creativity for pastiche.
Mar 12, 2023 at 12:21pmWeb