Last week, Samsung was caught taking seemingly fake moon photos with their Galaxy phones’ cameras that were too good to be true. This week, no one seems to care.

Reddit user ibreakphotos noticed that photos of the moon taken with the Samsung S20 Ultra looked surprisingly good considering how small the image is in the frame, even with a high-powered zoom lens. To test it, they downloaded a photo of the moon, resized it, blurred the resulting image, then used a Samsung phone to take the photo. The result was impossibly good, leading many to assume that Samsung simply took an existing photo of the moon, altered it, and passed it off as the original. The reality is more complicated.

"As a photo archivist with professional expertise in digitizing over a billion photos, authenticity is of the utmost importance to me. Photography has the unique ability to capture a real moment in time, which is why Samsung's use of high-resolution images to create moon photos is a huge disappointment. In my opinion, maintaining integrity is more valuable than presenting a doctored image," Mitch Goldstone, founder of photo scanning company ScanMyPhotos, told Lifewire via email.

We already know that our phones process cameras intensively. Beauty filters smooth out skin imperfections, Night modes use multiple exposures to squeeze detail from impenetrable shadows, and the iPhone’s Sweater mode combines multiple images to extract better detail in middling lighting conditions. Other tricks include not taking a photo until all of your subject’s eyes are open (blink detection), smile detection, sky enhancements, and even — in the case of Google’s Magic Eraser — automatically removing distracting objects.