The original press release calls it "anti-intelligent" which makes some sense. This blog headline calls it "anti-AI" which makes it sound like it is meant to mess with machine learning training algorithms, but actually it's not really "anti-AI", just "not AI". (Whether ML-based image processing should <i>really</i> qualify as "artificial intelligence" in the first place, just because it uses machine learning algorithms, is an entirely different story, but I guess this is just our lives now.)
A couple years ago before the current "AI" hype cycle, someone sent me an IPhone photo of their boston terrier on a black-and-white patterned Ikea rug. Although it was "just an unprocessed photo", the rug pattern had been propagated over the dog's body replacing some of its original markings.
Great. This looks like it may address some problems I've written about in the iPhone photo pipeline:<p><a href="http://yager.io/comp/comp.html" rel="nofollow">http://yager.io/comp/comp.html</a><p><a href="https://petapixel.com/2023/02/04/the-limits-of-computational-photography/" rel="nofollow">https://petapixel.com/2023/02/04/the-limits-of-computational...</a>
On a technical level, this seems a bit silly (everything coming out of a Bayer filter is post-processed in <i>some</i> way, in the end), but I can definitely see people getting tired of "opinionated" photo processing, AI or otherwise.<p>Tangentially related: I learned today that an old point-and-shoot 1-inch camera I'd bought over 7 years ago is now selling for twice the MRSP used online, apparently because it looks cool/retro and/or because photos and videos coming out of it don't look "pre-processed" in any way.
This will absolutely get me to go back to Halide once iOS 18 hits and I can change the default camera that gets launched from the Home Screen button.<p>In 2025 I'd love to see "AI" disappear from usage. I know I'm not likely to get that, but damn if I am not tired of hearing about it. I've never wanted a dumb phone more than I have in 2024, or to get rid of my computers.
The processing we're starting to do on the standard images on these phones are crazy. I'm always excited for the camera advancements in the phones, but always have to go hunting for an app that does exactly this.
Direct link: <a href="https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lux.camera/introducing-process-zero-for-iphone/</a>
There is no such thing as a 'pure' photo, and pretending otherwise is an editorial decision. Our imaging technology collects radiation and we then process that signal and re-emit similar radiation. Every step along that process has decisions made about how that step works.<p>And that's not even getting into the fun things we can do by applying our own radiation to reflect off the object! We can do a lot with good lighting.<p>It is nice to have the ability to choose to take more control over automated steps of the process though, especially because modern apple phones have impressive cameras.