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‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec. (www.theverge.com)

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‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.::Samsung’s head of product is now saying that every photo is fake. Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 phones increase the ways that the company uses AI to produce pictures.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is this meant to be something surprising? It applies to every photograph ever taken as a photograph it is just a representation of the photons that hit your film/sensor. Ansel Adams even makes a comment similar to the Samsung exec in his book 'The Camera'.

That doesn't mean there aren't varying degrees of realism to that representation. A journalistic photo should show the scene as representatively as the photographer can make it with minimal editorializing. While an artistic photo may have any amount of editing that the photographer wants. Where there is an issue is when the photographer trying to create the first image unwittingly gets the second due to image processing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

it applies to every photograph ever taken as a photograph it is just a representation of the photons that hit your film/sensor

Well, Samsung is certainly pushing it to fake territory e.g. with moonshot photo where it replaces the moon in the photo with a static moon image. It's not a representation of photons that hit the sensor anymore, it's a complete switcheroo.