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by semi-extrinsic 8 days ago
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.