‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.::Samsung’s head of product is now saying that every photo is fake. Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 phones increase the ways that the company uses AI to produce pictures.
‘There is no such thing as a real picture,’ says Samsung exec.::Samsung’s head of product is now saying that every photo is fake. Samsung’s new Galaxy S24 phones increase the ways that the company uses AI to produce pictures.
I mean, there’s a real point there, but it’s expressed feebly, and by a simpleton - or at least through a language barrier. When you perceive anything, it’s through your biological filters; we do not see what is “really there” but only what is relevant to our reality. The same is true of cameras - they’re designed to capture a similar range to what our nervous system sees. But to say “there is no real picture” is to import philosophical concepts which are not appropriate to the discussion of photography, which presumes a pristine state to be captured and recorded. You stop playing the “photography” game when you drag in concepts that you can’t simply “point” at and “shoot”.
There’s no language barrier, his name is Patrick Chomet and he’s fluent in English and lives in London. He’s also definitely not dumb. He’s making a cynical argument that since all images have some level of post processing that they should all be viewed as “fake” on a Boolean level while conveniently ignoring the magnitude of post processing.
Ignoring the magnitude and the intent.