Galaxy S23 Ultra's photo app 'adds teeth to teethless babies without permission'



'Gallery', a photo browsing application that can be used with Samsung's Galaxy series, has a function called '

remaster ' that automatically removes shadows and reflections to make photos beautiful. When using this function, attention is being paid to reports that teeth have been added to the mouths of babies who have not yet grown teeth.

Samsung's photo 'remaster' knows what this baby pic is missing: teeth - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/22/23652488/samsung-gallery-remaster-feature-teeth-baby-photos-moon



Samsung's AI photo feature adds creepy teeth to baby photos | Boing Boing
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The remaster function available in Samsung's 'Gallery' app was released in May 2021. SamMobile , a technology media that covers Samsung-related devices such as the Galaxy series, said about the remaster function, ``It is a function that automatically processes the necessary photos into sophisticated ones. So it's a little limited, but the results we've tested so far have been good,' he praised.

On Samsung's official website, regarding the remaster function, ``Remaster automatically removes shadows and reflections to make photos look beautiful.You can also remaster GIFs to increase resolution and clarity.'' It is written

One UI 5 Key Features | Samsung US
https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/one-ui/features/

Enhanced remastering[5.1]
Remastering removes shadows and reflections automatically to make your pictures look great. You can also remaster GIFs for better resolution and clarity.



However, since this remaster function is an automatic process by AI, it is reported that non-ideal processing is also performed.

Twitter user Apricot Lennon reports that teeth are added arbitrarily when applying the remaster function to a photo of a 7-month-old baby who has not yet grown teeth. In addition, it seems that the terminal used by Lennon is Galaxy S23 Ultra .




Here is the original photo.



Looking up at the baby's mouth, the teeth are not growing and the nose is dripping as shown below.



When I applied the remaster function, my teeth grew and my runny nose disappeared.



In addition, The Verge has released a GIF image of 'How teeth are added to a baby that has not grown when the remaster function is applied' recorded by Lennon with screen capture. Click the image below to see how teeth are added to the baby's photo when the remaster function is applied.



However, The Verge pointed out that it was not possible to add teeth to the baby using the same version of the gallery app using the Galaxy S22. In addition, he said he was unable to find other users reporting this kind of problem, and wrote, 'I can't say for sure what's going on.' Also, The Verge has asked Samsung to comment on this matter, but no response has been received at the time of writing.

In addition, some models of Samsung's popular smartphone series Galaxy are equipped with a unique up to 100x zoom function 'Space Zoom' using AI. It has also been pointed out that when using this function to shoot the moon floating in the night sky, it is supposed to be just a zoom function, but the details of the moon are arbitrarily processed into fine details.

Pointed out that the picture of the moon taken with Galaxy's camera's 100x zoom function 'Space Zoom' is 'counterfeiting by AI'-GIGAZINE



On the other hand, Samsung has published a blog denying the point. However, regarding the fact that even in photos that have clearly undergone blurring processing, the details are expressed in detail by AI processing, there is a question: Using photos for marketing is misleading as to the superior optical performance of smartphones.'

Samsung publishes on blog how ``photo of fake moon drawn by AI'' is taken-GIGAZINE



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