Xiaomi Phone's AI Hallucinates Moon Craters on the Sun
FlorianGallwitz · x · 2026-08-13
A user attempting to photograph the sun with a Xiaomi smartphone triggered the device's automatic "supermoon" mode after the camera misidentified the star. Consequently, the phone's AI computational photography algorithm hallucinated and generated lunar crater details directly onto the surface of the sun.
This amusing fail reignites discussions around modern smartphones over-relying on AI to artificially enhance or completely fabricate photographic details.
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