And now practically every phone camera "enhances" the image via AI that might invent details. Most famously Samsung adding details to photos of the moon.
I'm scared that the "AI" marketing will make it much harder convincing non-technical coworkers and execs that "garbage in, garbage out" is a real concept, that not all "data" is good, and that our systems need to keep track of which kind is going where.
"All data is useful, the more the better! Just put it all into the AI and it'll sort it out."
We faced this problem recently when doing an old-fashioned experiment to test a hypothesis. Can you trust the images from your phone to check if phenomenon X has occurred or not? What if the AI model processing the image just hallucinated what you wanted to see?
It is Descarte's evil demon incarnate. Yet another incentive to preserve my old mirrorless camera.
Is this really pervasive? E.g. To my knowledge the "AI" enhancement that iPhones do automatically is limited to the usual sorts of post-processing for contrast, color, etc. There is an AI editing mode that leans more into generative fill capability that would be analogous to the Samsung incident but I don't think it's happening automatically to every photo you take.
"All data is useful, the more the better! Just put it all into the AI and it'll sort it out."