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Your phone screen doesn’t have the same color range as the human eye – and AI widens the gap between digital images and the real thing
Phone screens display only colors within their limited range, converting colors outside that range into displayable ones.
Repeated photos with greens compressed to a screen-safe range cause viewers to perceive that limited range as the true green.
Photographed leaves often appear muted and unevenly colored, indicating that phones try to adjust for colors they cannot fully display.
AI image generators can amplify this color limitation by narrowing color variety over time when trained on earlier model outputs, losing some rare colors.