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Halide + Kino

This image, which is being shared as an example of “iPhone photo processing going crazy”, is almost 100% certain to be a fake and not an iPhone camera glitch.

Exposure merging happens, but on a timescale that is far shorter than one that allows pose changes as seen here.

@halide Assuming your system maintains realtime performance and doesn't get a big latency spike.

@landley no, that’s… not how that works.

@halide That' _shouldn't_ be how it works, and doesn't seem to have been before the latest not-invented-here hardware transition, but are you sure they didn't decide their new chip was so fast they could unload some of the image processing work on a thread? (I have no idea, that black box is waaaay proprietary. I dunno what's shared and what's dedicated and what the data flow is through what systems with what dependencies.)

Version skew comes for us all...

@landley @halide I mean, the angle isn't even right in the left mirror. It's 100% fake.

@collin @halide Given that both samsung and huawei got caught detecting pictures of the moon and replacing them with a saved one, I have no idea what Apple is doing but would not be surprised if the 16 core "Apple Neural Engine" in the A16 bionic was performing fairly elaborate "AI" shenanigans closer to DALL.E than snapchat filters.

But you're right, I don't actually know what's in the black box, or have a chain of custody for the picture.

@halide On the left reflection's right hand you can see a seam. Could be JPG compression artifacts, but it doesn't span the entire image.

@halide In middle school I dreamed of being an expert witness for image manipulation after watching a special about aliens.

@halide it’s a fake and it’s disappointing that there is no flaw to exploit and be creative.

💡 But why wouldn’t you create a feature in Halide out of this idea ?

@psford @halide PetaPixel says they talked with the taker of the photo directly, and she said it's just a normal photo: petapixel.com/2023/11/16/one-i

(EDIT: Ah, I don't think it says they did any legwork themselves, it could be just a were-reporting-what-we-see-online thing.)

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