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

What truly happens to a wild color when it reaches your screen?Have you ever photographed something vibrant, only to find the image just… misses the mark? This piece unpacks why that happens, delving into the quiet compromises our screens make with color. It’s not just about technical limitations; it’s about what we implicitly accept as “real” when our world increasingly arrives filtered through digital lenses. The author, an artist and teacher, asks us to consider what we lose when AI learns from these already-limited palettes, and how that shapes our collective visual memory of the world’s true hues.The disparity between colors perceived by the human eye and those rendered by digital screens is examined, explaining how standard image formats restrict the visible spectrum. This limitation is then shown to be amplified by AI image generators, which, trained on these already-limited digital images, further narrow and flatten color representation, potentially altering our collective visual memory.Read at source: The Conversation