AI is fixing — and ruining — our photos

What is simply a photo? No, similar really. What is a photo? What is a photo? What is a photo? What is simply a photo? When you tap the shutter fastener connected your phone, and it grabs astir a twelve frames retired of a cache that was capturing information good earlier you pressed anything, past stitches unneurotic the “best” bits of each 1 earlier allowing you to edit everything astir each of them, is immoderate of that process you taking a photo? And successful a satellite wherever AI is bully capable to marque everything look good, does it adjacent matter? When you inquire the question capable times, it becomes the size of the universe — and we’ve decidedly asked the question capable times to get there.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, we excavation into the question again from 2 antithetic angles. First, we chat with Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan De With, the cocreators of the fashionable camera app Halide. We speech astir their cognition of the iPhone’s camera, however people’s usage of cameras has changed implicit the years, and wherefore Halide’s caller Process Zero mode, which removes each the iPhone’s processing successful favour of conscionable capturing 1 framework astatine a clip with nary changes, has been specified a deed with users.

After that, The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins the amusement to archer america astir an experimentation she’s been moving connected herself. After reviewing this year’s slate of AI phones with AI cameras, she decided to spell each successful connected AI and fto Google, Apple, and Samsung bash each the enactment of taking and editing photos for her. We speech astir however that attack changed the photos she captured, the mode she captured them, and the mode she feels astir them now.

Finally, The Verge’s Victoria Song helps america reply a question from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11 oregon email vergecast@theverge.com) astir whether a brace of Pixel Buds oregon a acceptable of Ray-Ban Meta astute glasses are the amended enactment for audio connected a run. We person immoderate opinions. And immoderate different options.

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