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		nagonago on Sept 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images ... Clearly Google was storing their old photos in a damp basement, and they got water damage. But seriously, I am also very curious. I wonder if they are playing with an in-house compression algorithm.

porquilho on Sept 26, 2022 [–]

it seems to me from the photo of the dog, it was an face recognition, algo or eyes recognition ago, but the algo also left the changes in the photo as it proccesed it. instead of putting it all in the server side.

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