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jdw said:

It's called "subject isolation."  Ever shot a photo of yourself or someone else and wanted to remove either another person or an eyesore?  Subject isolation!  And with AI, that process is getting much faster and easier.

If you examine the side-by-side shot in the article, you see the highway takes your focus away from the train tracks.  It would take longer for you to notice the train is there.  The doctored photo helps you see the white-topped train on the tracks more clearly and quickly.

So who cares if the "SF Gate wasn't fooled"!  It wasn't about fooling you as much as it was making your eyes see the MAIN POINT of that scene, which was the train.

"What about homes changed to mansions?" you ask?  ANSWER: scene beautification.  And who does that better than Apple?  My goodness!  Where does the clip say "this scene is 100% accurate?"  Our cities do need some beautification.  Obviously, you can't replace old homes with new ones instantly.  But 100 years from now, things will probably look different.  The old will be destroyed and make way for the new.  But the biggest change that would make a huge improvement would be the complete elimination of power and photo lines.  Ever watch Star Trek earth scenes of the future? No power lines.  Funny how eliminating the world's BIGGEST eyesore makes things look more "futuristic."

The things people talk about and complain about these days is getting pretty crazy.  Let well enough alone and enjoy life.  Don't worry.  Be happy.

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Been living in a neighborhood with no power lines above ground for almost 40 years. Don’t need to  move to Star Trek’s dystopia to experience that.

But there are much greater, and more depressing, eyesores on this planet than power lines.

mikethemartian said:

They are going to replace it with an ad where they kill Bambi.

zeus423 said:

My shares are doing just fine. I bought before the iPhone was introduced.

harry wild said:

Apple is dropping the ball!  Everything is not going well so I sold all my shares!  Pathetic!