Of course they’re not real. They’re reproductions of reality. This has been true of images since cave paintings.
That’s not what the article is about and I’m impressed how many people in the comments completely missed the point.
This is what happens when you think you have a story, but it turns out you don’t. Image editing apps exist and are getting easier to use, big whoop?
I for sure thought this was gonna be about “AI cameras”. Seems all phones nowadays have some kind of software to make the camera seem less shitty, but nope, it’s about people making a choice to edit their photos.
nice misleading title
none of your
This hand-wringing bullshit would feel much more weighty if a FOSS alternative with manual controls didn’t exist available for free on the same OS and the same device: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.opencamera/
Welcome to our new counterfeit reality.
Does the author use Internet Explorer 5.0?
