Comment by b112
3 years ago
"I'm a crummy photographer and all I want is something to remind me that I was there"
This is fine, and I can take good shots but at the same time? I only care about this level of shot most of the time too!
But then instead of a 20MP image, which:
* takes more space, and ergo, more flash drive space
* more space to store, to backup, to send
* is made 20MP by inserting fake data
Why not have a 2MP image, which is real, and let people's end-use device "fix" it? Because all that post processing can be done when 2x or 4x the view size, too!
Because advertising.
And that's sad. We'd rather think we have a better pic, and destroy the original.
And the space thing is real. Because, that same pic gets stored in gmail with 20 people, backed up, kept in all the devices, and so on!
And the LOL of it all, is that I bet when it is uploaded to facebook... it gets downsized!
edit: in fact, my email app allows me to resize on email, so I downsize that too! Oh, those poor electrons.
This is like Huffman compression on your photos but the AI companies created an exabyte size dictionary and now you can store your photo in a few kilobytes.
The key to all modern "AI" bullshit (ChatGPT, StableDiffusion etc) is that they're just exquisite lossy compressors, where a good-enough perceptual loss function has been learned automatically.
There's nothing wrong with that until people start assuming they're lossless (like Huffman encoding) which they definitely are not. Unfortunately the general public doesn't understand the difference.