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		PlunderBunny on Dec 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational... As far as the phone knows, there were three people in the photo, and it captured the 'best' picture of each one and composited them.

thfuran on Dec 1, 2023 [–]

Yes, and when there actually are three people, the so-called photograph could, by the same mechanism, show them in an arrangement that never actually happened.

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