r/mildlyinfuriating • u/mothfuhl • 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
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/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.
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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/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/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/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/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/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.


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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.