Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head with a leaf

Re:Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head w... by dagmx on Friday December 31, 2021 @01:44PM (#29751104)

I think it also speaks greatly to people's paranoia about technology they don't fully understand.

I think a lot of the HN crowd are susceptible to that because they know just enough to know it's possible but are not perhaps familiar with a given domain (I certainly know that applies to me).

It's perhaps some spin-off of the dunning-kruger observation... There must be a spot on the curve where a person knows just enough to be freaked out by what they're seeing, but not enough to explain it fully. Whereas here the Halide devs know the domain well enough to quickly diagnose it.

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Re:Update: iPhone Camera app did not replace person's head w... by corobo on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:30PM (#29751612)

> I think a lot of the HN crowd are susceptible to that because they know just enough to know it's possible

Absolutely think this describes what happened

I'd have probably been more skeptical myself had I not seen an ad earlier in the day of an Android phone removing people from the background of an image as easily as you'd crop it. Whoops!

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