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The Vergecast

AI is fixing — and ruining – our photos

The Vergecast

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News, Tech News, Technology

4.44.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

For this full-on “what is a photo” episode, we start by chatting with Halide developers Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan De With about what it means to build a camera app in 2024 — and what it means to try and accurately capture a photo. Then The Verge’s Allison Johnson joins the show to talk about her experiment going all-in on AI-ifying her photos. Finally, we answer a hotline about which gadgets to attach to your head when you go for a run. Further reading: Halide Halide’s Process Zero feature captures photos with no AI processing Let’s compare Apple, Google, and Samsung’s definitions of ‘a photo’ No one’s ready for this Google’s AI tool helped us add disasters and corpses to our photos The AI photo editing era is hare, and it’s every person for themselves This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? Email us at [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11, we love hearing from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Virgcast, the flagship podcast of knowing that the key to the

0:07.4

camera control on the iPhone 16 is that it does whatever it's going to do when

0:11.2

you let go of the button,

0:12.8

not when you press the button.

0:14.2

Total game changer.

0:15.3

I'm your friend David Pierce, and I am doing

0:17.5

what I guess you would call a camera audit.

0:20.1

So I've decided for a bunch of reasons

0:21.8

that I want to take fewer photos and videos on my phone,

0:25.0

especially of like life memories. I think if you're doing it for a purpose, it's fine.

0:29.3

But I just want to have these photos and not take them in a way that sort of ruins the memory of the moment, if that makes

0:36.1

sense, and I have definitely been guilty of taking out my phone, taking a picture, and then being like,

0:41.1

oh, while I'm here, let me check my fantasy team for 45 minutes.

0:44.8

And that's bad, so I'm trying to get out of that.

0:46.3

And I've discovered I actually have a lot of options around here.

0:49.8

I have old phones, and really any phone from the last couple of years I have old pixels old

0:53.9

iPhones I have a nothing phone like there's a bunch of decent camera options here maybe I

0:58.3

should use one of those I have a DJI osmo pocket this thing great videos. I do a lot of Virgcast stuff with it actually and I like it quite a bit.

1:07.2

I have an old Sony Alpha 6,000 lying around here somewhere. I have a lot of options. And I was thinking I need to buy a new camera, some fancy new, you know, the FujiX 100 or whatever.

1:20.0

And I probably will, let's be honest, This is just the life I've chosen. I spend all of the money on gadgets that I don't have

1:29.6

But I think there's something interesting about repurposing one of these gadgets.

1:34.2

I mean, hell, I have the humane AI pin and the Rabbit R1 here.

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