October 8, 2024

AI is fixing — and ruining — our photos

Claudio Ctin1 mins
AI is fixing — and ruining — our photos

Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge

What is a photo? No, like really. What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? When you tap the shutter button on your phone, and it grabs nearly a dozen frames out of a cache that was capturing data well before you pressed anything, then stitches together the “best” bits of each one before allowing you to edit everything about all of them, is any of that process you taking a photo? And in a world where AI is good enough to make everything look good, does it even matter? When you ask the question enough times, it becomes the size of the universe — and we’ve definitely asked the question enough times to get there.

On this episode of The Vergecast, we dig into the question again from two different angles. First, we…

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