Samsung’s Galaxy S23 Ultra caused a furore earlier this month for faking photos of the moon. Basically, the smartphone camera’s Scene Optimizer was found to have added details (accurate, btw) of the moon that weren’t present in the subject, a deliberately-blurred photo of the moon. This, of course, sparked debate (MKBHD’s take is spot-on) about the nature of photography in the age of artificial intelligence.
Going by online comments, people were mostly disappointed that they didn’t actually take a great photo of the moon. But outside of photography, many of us seem perfectly happy with AI fixing things, or even outright doing our jobs for us. Everyone’s still using ChatGPT, even if it’s known to hallucinate or invent details, too. But I can see how flat earthers or conspiracy theorists, for example, may not want their phones having a AI-powered fact-checking feature. And you can imagine speech being altered or influenced by AIs peddling a certain mindset — in a dystopian world. Perhap…
