Eclipse: The Xiaomi 17 Ultra Confuses the Moon and the Sun

In the future, it might be extremely hard to find a camera which records exactly what is in front of it :D

Interestingly, one of their AI filters is actually called "Super Moon":

4.14.3 Camera Image Optimization

The camera image optimization AI algorithm is mainly used in the following camera features: Super Moon, AI Camera, Document Mode, Front Portrait Mode with Background Blurring, and Beautify.

https://trust.mi.com/docs/miui-privacy-white-paper-global/4/...

I still struggle with the idea that the chinese olympics had both CGI fireworks and real firework footage mixed together.

I cant fathom how this was a "if they know it doesnt matter at all" situation.

A complete acceptance of real / fake, who cares its about stuff looking great.

I mean I can be told it but I cant understand why you would waste millions on real works just to have fake ones, why not just go all fake? If its a half way house then does no one care what is real?

IE on linkedin somany AI videos with thousands of comments and likes and I become lost on ... do most poeple just not care if its real or not? I dont think they do at all. Am I mad to care?

Its very easy to say well everyone uses filters and they are not real. And its true! But somewhere and I have no idea where, there seems tobe a line for me where I say no, thats not cricket, you cant just replace part of an image with a template of something else. I have no idea tho any thoughts appreciated.

I wonder if it gets the moon the right way up in the southern hemisphere

I got some amazing photos through a set of eclipse viewing glasses on my Vivo x300 pro. If I'd been a bit more organized and set up a stand and taped the glasses onto the phone I think I could have taken a video of the whole thing in incredible quality. But I just held the glasses in front of the lens and it worked.

What I found though was that I had to use the pro mode (which I use for basically everything anyway, to avoid exactly the kind of issues this article is talking about).

I did try on normal photo mode and I think what was happening was that as soon as I covered one lens with the glasses it switched to another.

It remains incredibly funny that they never turned off this "fake moon" feature after being caught the first time

the title should be "lies, damn lies, and photo enhancements"

Living in a post-factual world.