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I haven’t seen it get mentioned on Tumblr yet but Samsung has just gotten caught in a hilarious scam: they apparently advertised how their latest phones can take great picture of the moon, compared to other phones!

But it turns out they aren’t using machine-learning to clear up blurry pictures, they’re using machine-learning to detect when you’re taking a picture of the moon, and then they swap in a saved PNG file of the moon.

A reddit user figured this out by taking a photo of the moon from Wikipedia, blurring it in photoshop, then trying to photograph it from across the room with all the lights turned out.

Their Samsung phone somehow managed to “clear up” the blurriness and recover details that weren’t there in the first place. Because it’s just cheating.

r/Android - Samsung "space zoom" moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

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Here’s the first reddit post in the saga.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/

Next step obviously is for someone to disassemble the camera app, find the PNG, and replace it with something else.