While I understand what the author tries to say, I have to point out that ship has long sailed. Samsung just pushed it a bit too far and slapped a "scene optimizer" label on it.
AI has been used in "cell phone photography" for a few years, at lease since Pixel 2 where a mediocre sensor produced much better pictures than what people expect (maybe there are other players who did this even earlier). And every manufacturer started doing it, including Apple. Otherwise, do you think "night mode" is just pure magic? Of course not, algorithms are used everywhere.
How do you define "fake"? In podcasts, Verge editor Nilay Patel has asked various people "what is a photo", because the concept of a "photo" has become increasingly blurry. That is the question the author is asking, and people may have different answers from the author's.
Exactly. The webpage is probably asking for resource from 10 different servers and one of them is a bit slower than the others, and the page rendering itself likely doesn't take very long.
Only makes sense if the host is actually paying professional cleaning service, or doing it themselves at the level provided at those services, after each stay.
And I am very sure that's not the case 99% of the time based on my own experience. I'd be thankful if the kitchen counter is clean and there is no trash. That's actually not a low bar.
"recommended"? That's just something that Chrome team created and no other browser vendor is interested in supporting it. Google seems to think that they can use their market dominance to force the idea.
AI has been used in "cell phone photography" for a few years, at lease since Pixel 2 where a mediocre sensor produced much better pictures than what people expect (maybe there are other players who did this even earlier). And every manufacturer started doing it, including Apple. Otherwise, do you think "night mode" is just pure magic? Of course not, algorithms are used everywhere.
How do you define "fake"? In podcasts, Verge editor Nilay Patel has asked various people "what is a photo", because the concept of a "photo" has become increasingly blurry. That is the question the author is asking, and people may have different answers from the author's.