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A lot of users here seem to be under the misconception that these are 100% AI generated images.
The problem isn't really with that as the article states that this is an issue with using AI in the editing process:
It's also worth noting that some phones allow you to zoom in beyond your camera's normal capabilities by using AI to enhance the picture. With some algorithms this might not be an issue, but if it's using a model that's been trained by some animal/object database then this can introduce innaccuracies that would cause problems for researchers trying to keep their database clean.
This was a whole thing with Samsung phones replacing the moon with a fake one in their telephoto images... I hate how much processing is going into phone images now.
You need a real camera if you want real pictures. The optical zoom on a phone camera is only a couple times magnification.
I actually did buy a Sony mirrorless camera several years ago when I was getting unhappy with the quality of my phone camera, right around the time the aggressive denoising tech was introduced. It made all the leaves in my forest photos turn into a smeary mess, not much different from an AI image.
These photos were 6 years apart, but I bought the nice camera shortly after the first photo. Galaxy S10 vs Sony A9 straight off the camera, similar shutter speeds, but different weather.
