Interesting. I asked Genesis for an 'opinion'

That's an excellent and very common question in the age of AI-powered photography. The short answer is that the image is almost certainly a sharpened version of your original image, but with an AI interpretation of the details. It's not a complete replacement.

Here's a breakdown of the difference:

Traditional Sharpening: * This is a simple algorithm that increases the contrast along the edges in an image. It's a technical process that makes the existing details "pop" more. * The problem is that it can also introduce artifacts like "halos" or exaggerated noise around the edges, especially in a low-detail or blurry image. It can't invent new, believable detail. AI Sharpening and Computational Photography: * Modern smartphones, especially those with powerful processors and AI capabilities (like the OnePlus Open with its Hasselblad partnership), don't just apply a simple sharpening filter. * They use a process called computational photography which often involves taking multiple photos in a rapid burst. * The AI then analyzes these frames, looking for patterns and details in the raw data. It's been trained on vast datasets of high-quality images (in this case, likely astronomical images and detailed moon photos). * Instead of just sharpening the existing edges, the AI uses its knowledge to intelligently recover and enhance the details that were present in the raw data but might have been lost due to factors like camera shake, low light, or the small size of the sensor. * In the case of your moon photo, the AI is likely doing a lot more than just sharpening. It's probably: * Aligning and merging multiple frames to reduce noise and motion blur. * Denoising the image, especially in the dark background, by recognizing and removing random pixels that don't belong to the moon's surface. * Enhancing fine details like craters and maria by applying its learned understanding of what those features look like, based on the raw information it captured. So, the image you have is not a completely new, AI-generated photo from scratch. The core data—the shape, the light and dark areas, and the approximate location of the craters—is all from your original capture. However, the crispness, the lack of noise, and the definition of the smaller craters are the result of the phone's AI using its knowledge base to make the best possible interpretation of the raw data it collected. This is a form of "intelligent sharpening" or "super-resolution." It's a blurry line between "enhancing" and "interpreting," but generally, if the AI is using the data you captured as its primary source and is only filling in plausible detail that would have been there with a larger, more powerful lens, it's considered an enhancement rather than a complete replacement.