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by hbn 288 days ago
They've been using that terminology for like a decade. They take multiple photos and use ML to figure out how to layer them together into a final image where everything is adequately exposed, and applies denoising. Google has done the same thing on Pixels since they've existed.

That's very different from taking that final photo and then running it through generative AI to guess what objects are. Look at the images in that article. It made the stop sign into a perfectly circular shiny button. I've never seen artifacting like that on a photo before.