

This was the end result.Īccording to the Redditor, this test proves Samsung is using AI to fill in the missing pieces of the puzzle using a model that has been trained on many photos of the Moon rather than the camera's actual optics. The coup de grâce involved setting the 170x170 image to full screen on the computer monitor, moving to the other size of the room, turning off the lights in the room and using Samsung's Space Zoom to photograph the tiny, blurred image. It was then resized down to 170x170 and a Gaussian blur was applied to effectively wipe out all of the details from the photo.

It started by downloading this high-resolution photo of the Moon from the Internet. Long convinced that Samsung's Moon images were a sham, the Redditor crafted a simple experiment to test the theory.

The results were stunning, but were they legitimate? One Reddit user doesn't think so. Dubbed Space Zoom, Samsung even went so far as to zoom in on the Moon using the feature. A hot potato: Samsung starting with its Galaxy S20 series added a 100x digital zoom feature to its flagship Ultra models.
