This reminds me of how Samsung got caught using AI to fake high quality pictures of the moon. Someone proved it by blurring an image of the moon, then taking a picture of the blurred image, and it came out with tons of detail.
I had a Pixel 6A and 7A in the last couple of years, mostly as an experiment. The computational photography side of it was a complete mess, mutilating many photos from crazy levels of over-sharpening through to turning things into weird oil paintings. Absolutely hated both of them. I do have photos of myself with a North Face hat taken on them though and they came out fine!<p>Crawled back to an iPhone and paid through the nose in the end.<p>Edit: crop from the 6a: <a href="https://imgur.com/a/RO0UYev" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/RO0UYev</a>
Another user posts an example of numbers being blurred out[1].<p>[1]: <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/1c98wpq/i_noticed_my_pixel_is_blurring_brand_namesmy_7/l0n72ea/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/pixel_phones/comments/1c98wpq/i_not...</a>
It's an interesting observation, but I couldn't replicate this by taking a photo of a Google Images search for "north face logo", or with a photo of the reddit user's photo. Pixel 7, stock Camera app. The photo turns out as expected.
It will be a crazy world when a company has to pay a camera manufacturer if they want their logo to be legible in any photos taken...<p>Surely there's a Black Mirror episode...
Clear as day. Taken moments ago: <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/kB7hnyFh5GymYEnC6" rel="nofollow">https://photos.app.goo.gl/kB7hnyFh5GymYEnC6</a><p>Camera version version 9.3.160.621982096.22
Photos that have undergone such processing should not be admissable as evidence in court.<p>...and from an even more dystopian angle, although this may be a "bug", it shows just how easy it is for them to selectively change how things appear if they wanted to.
Wasn't able to replicate with a 4a
I wonder whether it's realted to the case where North Face "defaced"[0] Wikipedia by changing photos in the site which shows their logo in order to boost brand awareness in google image search results<p>[0] <a href="https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/05/29/lets-talk-about-the-north-face-defacing-wikipedia/" rel="nofollow">https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/05/29/lets-talk-ab...</a>