[deergomoo]

They are fake. Ultimately it’s not recovering lost detail, it’s making shit up

[zeusk]

These remind me of the Samsung debacle about recognizing moon and emplacing a high quality texture of it into the image shot by camera.

[4d4m]

Exactly. This is akin to upscaling or frame rate interpolation. No consumers want this, they turn it off in settings.

[nomel]

I don't think making things up is the problem, it's if it's believable. If it's indistinguishable to a viewer, then who cares. I never would have thought the HDR of the clouds was "made up".

[SirMaster]

Maybe I'm odd, but a big part of art to me is seeing things how the creator intended it to be seen.

So I calibrate all my media consumption displays etc. I could never see myself using some automated SDR -> HDR conversion like this.

Even if it looks natural, it doesn't look like it was supposed to, and I want to see it how it was supposed to look.

[nomel]

I would use it on every single video I've ever made myself, because intent had nothing to do with how my videos look. They were made with then best camera I had available, and HDR has only been available relatively recently.

This is a tool that I want to use. If nobody can tell I used it, that's a good thing for me. If you don't want to use it, then nobody is making you.

[UberFly]

"I don't think making things up is the problem, it's if it's believable"

Depends of course if it's being passed off as reality. Slippery slope and all.