The significance of the original image was in verifying that our laws and models of black holes truly reflected reality.

This AI enhanced image used simulations to guess at the missing data. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of the black hole image in the first place?

This situation reminded me of when Samsung used AI and professional moon photos to insert details into blurry photos of the moon taken on their camera [0]. Isn’t that image no longer a current, true representation?

[0] - https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/15/23641069/samsung-fake-moo...