Let’s compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s definitions of ‘a photo’ \ stacker news ~Photography

Let’s compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s definitions of ‘a photo’www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252231/lets-compare-apple-google-and-samsungs-definitions-of-a-photo

362 sats \ 2 comments \ @zuspotirko 24 Sep Photography

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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zuspotirko OP 24 Sep

Samsung:

Actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], and it doesn’t mean anything. There is no real picture. You can try to define a real picture by saying, ‘I took that picture’, but if you used AI to optimize the zoom, the autofocus, the scene — is it real? Or is it all filters? There is no real picture, full stop.

Google:

“It’s about what you’re remembering,” he says. “When you define a memory as that there is a fallibility to it: You could have a true and perfect representation of a moment that felt completely fake and completely wrong. What some of these edits do is help you create the moment that is the way you remember it, that’s authentic to your memory and to the greater context, but maybe isn’t authentic to a particular millisecond.”

Apple:

Here’s our view of what a photograph is. The way we like to think of it is that it’s a personal celebration of something that really, actually happened. Whether that’s a simple thing like a fancy cup of coffee that’s got some cool design on it, all the way through to my kid’s first steps, or my parents’ last breath, It’s something that really happened. It’s something that is a marker in my life, and it’s something that deserves to be celebrated.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko OP 24 Sep

My thoughts on this:

Samsung you are technically right, the lines are blurry. From focal lengths effects on a pic, over noise reaction, computational sampling of more details, ai sharpen to full on ai gen... the lines are blurry. But nobody wants to hear that. And people have an intuitive idea on what's too far them. E.g. The ai inserting of a perfect moon on Samsung hardware was too far for me
I like the Google definition of a photo. What I remember, creating nostalgia and emotions - that's what I like about photography. I like to have control over it myself tho in the creation process.
Apple dodged the question. I'm confident that this whole ai saga will be the handeled the best by Apple with the lowest number of "outrages". But this quote dodging the obvious topic has me worried.