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“Apple’s iPad creates what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there”

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An expert testified that apple uses interpolation to enhance and upscale images. That interpolation did not alter the video in a substantial way. The lawyer was mentioning Apple 3d photo enhancement. Some of you that are laughing just don't realize Apple has deepfakes type software installed on iphones.

Re: “Apple’s iPad creates what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there”

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this case is actually pretty interesting, since there are definitely more and more black box algorithms running on photo taking apps to enhance them.

We globally know what they're doing but i remember very fondly a CS teacher in the 90s telling us how military refused to use anything based on neural nets because results were unprovables.

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How in the world did a judge actually allow this argument to go forward? This is malpractice.

Maybe he remembered hearing the word logarithms from high school math and thought “oh yes this fellow knows what he’s talking about, that’s an 11th grade word, I remember that from the Reagan years”

Re: “Apple’s iPad creates what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there”

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This is an insidious argument because there's a grain of truth in it. Photos/videos are heavily post-processed by Apples 'Neural engine' (https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine) running on the Bionic chips, but this is done at the time of recording.

Zooming the video to play it to the jury would just be simple linear scaling, and could be done on any device capable of playing & scaling a video. For example, the zoom or crop functions in VLC.

> have artificial intelligence in them that allow things to be viewed through three-dimensions and logarithms

a dangerous mix of incoherent buzzwords that's nearly correct.

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This is an insidious argument because there's a grain of truth in it. Photos/videos are heavily post-processed by Apples 'Neural engine' ( https://github.com/hollance/neural-engine ) running on the Bionic chips, but this is done at the time of recording. Zooming the video to play it to the jury would just be simple linear scaling, and could be done on any device capable of playing & scaling a video. For example, the…

Zooming into the video does not touch the neural engine. The standard video enhancements are described here .https://m.dpreview.com/articles/6780391159/all-apple-iphone-... Please be factual and stop spreading FUD.

Re: “Apple’s iPad creates what it thinks is there, not what necessarily is there”

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post #5

How in the world did a judge actually allow this argument to go forward? This is malpractice.

Maybe he remembered hearing the word logarithms from high school math and thought “oh yes this fellow knows what he’s talking about, that’s an 11th grade word, I remember that from the Reagan years”

I just keep thinking about "The FizzBuzz from Outer Space"[1] and I guess the guy became a lawyer after failing the interview??

[1]: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-fizz-buzz-from-outer-sp...

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