I have to say, I extremely dislike AI processing of photos. The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments. Distorting that with AI and being okay with it is really disappointing.

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thiht an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> The camera is a vehicle to capture the realness of the world around us, including the imperfect moments

I mean... that's your opinion, not a fact :)

I kinda agree, yet I will make small edits to my pictures to make them more like I felt than how it looked. Maybe in a happy moment the sky was more blue to me than it actually was and I want my picture to reflect it. Maybe I was happier and less tired than the picture remembers it and I want to fix it.

If some people want to AI process their pictures to make them match their memories better, or even to shape better memories, who are we to judge?

	▲	chris_money202 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I think it’s pretty easy to judge when in conjunction with AI edited photos you have algorithms that award that. So sure it might be just some people that do it, but it ends up being all that is seen. Is Apple to blame in that? No. But are they completely innocent? Also no

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nicebyte 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

when you re-crop a photo or use the perspective tool, you are literally distorting the image. not to mention, all of the processing that happens in modern cameras before you even see the image. in the case of a modern smartphone in particular, I think it's fair to say that you never really see the "real" image as captured by the CCD sensor, and even if you did you would not like it anyway.

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chris_money202 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not sure I agree with the cropping argument, would be no different than cutting a printed photo with scissors. I would lump the other image manipulations done by hardware into "AI manipulation" as well, although those tend to be much more modest.

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merlindru 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

cropping doesn't alter the moment captured. or, rather, you're also cropping when taking a picture - no camera can capture all 360 degrees.

so what is being captured is altered from the get.

yet i don't think you'd argue that the act of taking a photo is the same as photoshopping a giant giraffe into a photo :P

i don't think arguing that taking a photo which is cropped/enhanced (as in sharpening, color correction, ...) is akin to changing what's displayed in it.

those distortions only serve to let us better focus on what truly happened in a moment, not change the moment in essence.

	▲	SSLy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		what about keystone correction? A staple in any proper digital image editing tool