‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec
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“There is no real picture, full stop.”

‘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.

  • Bobby TurkalinoEnglish
    44•5 months ago

    I used to work in medical imaging and weirdly pedantic people would say this all the time about digital photography. They say that even just the act of Debayering makes it artificial

      • @[email protected]English
        11•5 months ago

        And don’t get me started on the shit with how we actually see things. What photo? What reality? Is this a simulation?

        • @[email protected]English
          2•5 months ago

          Having tried to photograph purple flowers, I can confidently say that the human eye+brain combo messes around with the colors a lot. You can spend a lot of time trying to take the most authentic photo you can think of, but you’ll somehow still be dissatisfied with the end result, because that’s not what the flower looked to you in real life. Naturally, you’ll assume that your experience of the colors is exactly what real life is, but your camera still somehow comes to a different conclusion. Most likely, that’s because the camera doesn’t do all the fancy color corrections and distortion your mind does automatically. It’s also possible that cameras are really bad at seeing shades of purple.

          Fun fact: These fancy automatic corrections also fail under certain circumstances and produce interesting visual illusions.

      • circuitfarmerEnglish
        8•5 months ago

        Everything is just perception man… Just waves of energy flowing down a massive cosmic river.

        But somehow I don’t think this is Samsung’s official position.

      • r00ty
        5•5 months ago

        Take the argument further. Our vision is just our rods and cones reacting to the light striking them. Which is kinda analogous to film.

        But I’d also argue that we never really see a raw image. Our brain takes the raw image information and transforms it, and this is kinda analogous (although stretching it a bit) to the processing smart phones and digital cameras do.

        So, you know we’re back to the matrix argument. What is real?