AI-assisted and computational photography are usually exceptional when they work the way they should. I am not talking about the fake-moon photo here. I am talking about how Google's Pixel phones use the power of AI to truly take some incredible shots or how Samsung's Expert RAW allows you to take your photography to the next level. However, there are some horrors that can come forward if things go sideways, and this is what happened to a Twitter user when they used Samsung's Remaster Picture option on a picture of a baby.
Samsung Gallery's remastering tool adding teeth to a seven-month-old baby's picture shows how we don't really need AI-assisted photography features
Twitter user @earcity, took a picture of a beautiful baby and decided to run it through Samsung's Remaster Picture, a feature that has been a part of Gallery for ages now. The feature uses AI and some other algorithms to remaster the picture to make it better, and in my experience, it is not something mindblowing, but it can bring out some detail in pictures that are otherwise compressed or lacking in detail. However, the Twitter user experience was completely out of the ordinary and, well, unnatural. You can see the video yourself.
This is how gross Remastering is on the @SamsungMobile @Samsung #S23Ultra #SamsungS23Ultra. AI casually adding teeth to a 7 month old baby. NO ONE ASKED FOR THIS! pic.twitter.com/X9WUHWS2Hr
— Apricot Lennon 🐱🥙 (@earcity) March 22, 2023
Noticed anything weird? Well, if you haven't, then the Samsung Gallery's remastering tool considered that it would be okay to add teeth to the 7-month-old baby's picture. In comparison, the original picture had no teeth whatsoever. Now, some would consider this funny, but honestly, this is just in bad taste and while we cannot blame Samsung or the software itself, we can make a statement that perhaps these "AI-powered" tools should be put to rest until they have developed enough that they can actually make a difference.
Whether or not everyone will appreciate this is still something we have to wait and see, but the Twitter user in question clearly did not. This, combined with Samsung's fake moon controversy, is clearly not looking well for the company and AI-powered photography as a whole. I have been taking pictures with my phone for as long as I can remember, and honestly, I do miss the days when you could just take a picture, edit it to your heart's content, and be done with it. Without having to worry about your pictures having some abnormalities that would be added by artificial intelligence.
Hopefully, Samsung will issue an update to the Gallery app and the remastering tool that prevents it from creating some atrocities in the future. I did try to replicate the same issue on my phone, too. But since I don't have a similar picture, I could not get the results shown in the tweet. Regardless, it still is disturbing.
About the author: I have been tinkering with Android devices ever since the early days of the HTC Desire. Over time, I have grown a fondness for the ecosystem and now I cannot live without it. Although some might believe that I have sold my soul to Android, but I believe it is not the case. You can find me writing tutorials and posting guides on a number of different smartphones. When I am not writing here, I am wasting myself away in books, journals, or on Steam.
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