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SAMSUNG, a South Korean consumer electronic maker which has recently launched the next generation of the Galaxy flagship series has now become a part of the wrangle yet again. A recent post by Reddit claiming that the zoomed photos taken by the all-new Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra are fake sparked a controversy.

For the unversed, the company has introduced the Galaxy S23 Ultra with 100x zoom capabilities that can even click high-precision pictures of the moon. It has been one of the highlights and the biggest flex of the smartphone maker.

A user on Reddit, an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website, has posted the images claiming that the images taken by the device are fake, which created a controversy. The user further claimed that the company has been using AI tricks to enhance the images.

"Many of us have seen the stunning moon photographs produced with the most recent zoom lenses, beginning with the S20 Ultra. Yet, I've always questioned their validity because they appear nearly too beautiful. While these photographs are not necessarily forgeries, they are also not fully authentic. Let me clarify," ibreakphotos, a Reddit member, stated in a post.

Further, he took photos of the moon and analysed the differences, and came to the conclusion that the photos are not authentic. Here’s how:

The user downloaded high-resolution photos of the moon and started compressing the images. After this, the user blurred the images to make the details loosen up and then expanded to full screen. After that, he turned off the lights and noticed the details, and then wrote, “Samsung is leveraging an AI model to put craters and other details on places which were just a blurry mess”.

"I must emphasise: there is a distinction between additional processing a la super-resolution, in which multiple frames are combined to recover detail that would otherwise be lost, and this, in which you have a specific AI model trained on a set of moon images in order to recognize the moon and slap on the moon texture on it" (when there is no detail to recover in the first place, as in this experiment). This is not the same kind of processing that occurs when you zoom into anything else when the many exposures and data from each frame are accounted for. This is unique to the moon," writes Redditor in his post.