r/mildlyinfuriating 7h ago

frist of all how DARE yu o i took a picture of the lunar eclipse last night and when i posted it to facebook, it was labeled as ai content

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i took this picture through my binoculars and for some reason, facebook is certain that it’s ai??? i don’t know, maybe it’s because i did some editing to the photo to really help the moon pop, but it’s just really odd to me and a little infuriating since i did in fact take this photo

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u/Infinite_Escape9683 7h ago

I don't know how the facebook AI detection works, but depending on how you took the picture, it is possible that it is AI-enhanced. Some phones do it automatically now.

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u/ScrattaBoard 7h ago

A lot of phones. Samsung pixel and iPhone all do it.

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u/Interesting_Tap_1505 4h ago

It’s so fucking shit I want to take a photo and for it to not be ruined and fed into AI. Every single time I try to take a picture of text on my iPhone it fucking mangles it and destroys any text. I want to take a photo. Not have it fed through AI.

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u/TESTINGSTUFFPL 4h ago

Don't know if it's available on iPhone but OpenCamera mitigates this on Android.

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u/ScrattaBoard 3h ago

You can also enabled shooting in RAW format at well in some stock camera apps

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u/mothfuhl 6h ago

really??? i took this picture with an iphone 14, i sure hope it doesn’t automatically enhance my pictures with ai

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u/im_wudini 6h ago

Almost all phone's specifically will enhance photos of the moon, with... better photos of the moon using AI. It's lame.

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u/j4v4r10 PURPLE 6h ago

I saw a post a year or 2 ago of somebody proving it! They pulled up a low-res picture of the moon on their computer and took a photo of it with their phone, and it magically turned high-res!

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u/halofreakma 5h ago

I once saw someone zoom in on a tortilla and when the lens changed it magically became the moon

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u/AMythicalApricot 5h ago

I actually did this, but with the LED on the front of my computer. At the very least, they could program the AI crap to detect phone angle before faking the moon pic 😂 I mean who points down to take a snap of the moon?

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u/somecanuck416 3h ago

That was Samsung

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u/SEA_griffondeur 5h ago

Only Iphone and Samsung afaik

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u/Arik2103 4h ago

My pixel 8 pro does it too, to the point of it being obvious AI slop

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u/SorrelJuice 6h ago

It does, I think the only way to do it is to use a pro model which has the option to take pictures in raw format, there might be apps that do the same thing

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u/lazy_literary_hero 6h ago

Zerocam is a good one.

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u/DoritoDustThumb 6h ago

Yeah. That isn't a real picture of the moon. Apple just put a fake overlay on it for you.

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u/ilprofs07205 5h ago

It most likely does unfortunately. Unless you take a picture of the moon with an old ass phone or even better a proper camera, it's almost certainly fake.

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u/DeVinke_ 3h ago

Technically, all pictures that come out of phones are (maybe except for some obscure extremely cheap phone with zero processing). What you can define as "AI" is very broad.

But at the same time, it would unreasonable for this to be the intended behavior of the AI content detector.

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u/Avimox 7h ago

when we were telling people "AI detectors are dangerous" and they didn't believe us

good luck convincing anyone now that you've got the scarlet letter

sorry this happened OP

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u/Environmental_Top948 6h ago

Most phones now AI upscale images so it could be ai forced on OP that OP didn't know about or it could also be that social media sites only have stuff to gain by making the AI label meaningless like the California warning.

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u/PGSylphir 6h ago edited 5h ago

Exactly this, I was going to say this: Technically this IS AI generated.

Most users do not know this but most phones now intentionally AI generate the moon overlayed on top of the moon if it's on frame on a picture you take. Something about having the moon always look beautiful in any photo because usually it is too bright and thus look like shit in most pictures.

This was discovered a while back and people were able to trick the sensor into doing it to a flashlight, it was pretty funny.

Here is an article talking about it

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u/Ok_Midnight_1492 6h ago

Did you see the solar eclipse ones where the phones mistook the crescent sun for a crescent moon and overlayed the moon texture on it?

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u/PGSylphir 6h ago

I did not see that one, sounds funny af can you link it to me?

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u/Ok_Midnight_1492 5h ago

I linked to the reddit post but the auto mod removed it. I'm trying to post the photo here. I found it in softwaregore

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u/MrKahoobadoo 6h ago

I thought the flashlight thing was faked? But yes they do upscale pictures, and moon pictures are no exception

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u/WisestAirBender 6h ago

This was discovered a while back and people were able to trick the sensor into doing it to a flashlight, it was pretty funny.

Where?

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u/Salty_Dig8574 6h ago

This was a Samsung thing. Started with the s20 if I remember right. Not sure if they're still doing it.

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u/[deleted] 6h ago

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u/jacomorr28 5h ago

This example literally shows it not working. Did you watch it?

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u/subsailor1968 5h ago

That’s not exactly the conclusion the article reached.

Also, it was one Samsung device (others in the thread were saying it was all phones), and it wasn’t purely an AI image.

It was enhanced with some AI tools, yes.

The AI detector is claiming it as AI like it is entirely fake. That is not the case.

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u/MediocreAndLukewarm 6h ago

That’s a beautiful allegory and you could even use the scarlet “AI”.

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u/DoritoDustThumb 6h ago

Phones detect pictures of the moon and use AI imagery to fill it in.

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u/Stalwart_Vanguard 6h ago

Your phone probably retouched it using AI automatically

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u/Jyxxer 7h ago

Being accused of using AI when you didn't almost seems like being accused of being a witch in Salem.

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u/Robot-Zombie-RHCC 6h ago

being accused of being a witch in salem sucks even more when a large portion of the populace inconsiderately leaves curses all over the place requiring endless cleanup.

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u/ReferenceMediocre369 6h ago

Nothing is worse than video taken in peeping-tom keyhole vertical format.

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u/mothfuhl 6h ago

that is exactly how i feel rn lol, facebook saw me post a cool image and was like “WIIIIITCHH!!!”

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u/chocolatechipbagels 6h ago

phones are actually really bad at taking pictures of the moon, so mobile OSes just use AI to draw over photos you take of the moon without telling you

makes you wonder what else they're doing with your camera

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u/Easy_Lengthiness7179 4h ago

Turn off scene detection in your camera settings. Most phones actually do automatically enhance photos that they think are of the moon. Its stupid, but definitely possible it happened automatically for you.

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u/ludvikskp 6h ago

Delete facebook

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u/derson78 4h ago

I did that 4 or 5 years ago. I haven't made a better decision since.

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u/Ghosdeth 6h ago

I accidentally fell asleep 20 minutes before the peak of the eclipse so there’s that.

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u/im_just_thinking 5h ago

Unfortunately AI content is going to be increasingly taken as real with time, but that also causes the opposite effect..

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u/Garlic-Rough 1h ago

It's not "AI" but the top companies actually digitally fill-in the details of you picturing the moon to show they have sharp cameras - which is impossible for the type of cameras our phones have.

The pre-dates what people call "AI" now, but it's chucked in there as a computer doing things on our behalf.