Samsung’s Moon Shots Using The Company’s ‘Space Zoom’ Technology Are Fake As They Use An AI Model To Add Extra Details

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Samsung introduced its ‘Space Zoom’ feature with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, and with it, a ludicrous 100x magnification option that could be used to capture those impressive moon shots that all of us have seen in the company’s marketing material and on the internet. However, one Redditor has accumulated evidence and concluded that all those images were nothing more than Samsung taking advantage of an AI model and piecing data together to create a high-resolution image. In short, those images were fake.

Others may have tried to debunk the authenticity of Samsung’s moon shots, but Redditor u/ibreakphotos has shared some tremendous information on the thread, showing how easy it is to create such moon shots. First, he downloaded a near-perfect image of the moon from the internet below, downscaled it to a resolution of 170 x 170, and applied a gaussian blur, removing all the detail.

Then, he upscaled that blurred image to 4x, so that anyone viewing the moon now has a clearer picture of what is going on. Now, here is the fun part; u/ibreakphotos turns off all the lights in his room, goes to the opposite end of it, zooms in on his monitor through his smartphone, and snaps an image. He also provided a side-by-side comparison of both the blurred image of the moon and the one taken from his phone.

He later explains that Samsung has taken advantage of an AI model that incorporates exceptional detail in the image, such as craters, which would otherwise have been missing, creating nothing more than a blurred image. When an AI model is specifically trained on hundreds, if not thousands of images of the moon, it is clear that the image can come out more pleasing than expected. At the end of the Reddit post, he provides a brief summary of what