Really into this, but is the license plate bluriness due to JPEG compression or AI? Genuine question
It’s kind of both. A lot of modern Samsung phones do this really weird “AI Enhancement” shit to improve the look of zoomed in shots. I remember testing it out at Best Buy, taking pictures of some Blu-rays on the other side of the store with the 20x zoom option. The original photo was pretty much what you’d expect, it looked like a low-res super cropped pic, but then it applied the “AI Enhancement” and did it’s best to fill in the text and price labels, and wound up looking exactly like a bunch of garbled AI text.
Compression. I saw very similar “smoothing” on a zoomed in photo I took recently at home as the city sign in the background shows.
Edit: these are a bunch of turkeys that were about 50 feet away but once I zoomed into the picture the texture seemed really off.
What camera is doing this? Why would someone use this kind of enhancement? I don’t see the benefit at all — it just looks so much worse.
On another post where a web comic showed similar artifacts, I also asked the same question - and concluded that the comic’s resolution was “enhanced”, either by the phone itself (when they saved it from their source) or by a (re)poster. So I think that here it’s the same thing - AI “”“enhancement”“”.
Is this an Android thing?
Context: Am iOS user taking photos in RAW and sometimes ProRes
Edit: Maybe instead of downvoting you could explain how wrong I am. I’ve never seen this outside AI so I’m genuinely asking where these photos are coming from.
That doesn’t make sense, RAW is a file format and has nothing to do with AI enhancement. Also, RAW files are not uploadable to websites (they are, but they would look shitty), RAW is a file format that allows a greater range of adjustments at a later point for professionals (like using Lightroom).
ProRes is apparently (I googled it) a VIDEO format.
There might be phones that have shitty AI resolution enhancement built into their camera app, but most likely that’s not the case here. This image just went through an AI upscaler, which is a website or an app that works on Android and iOS, but it has nothing to do with the vendor
