I think we're also jaded now, in that all expectation that a photo is a totally truthful artifact produced by a physical process has long since been eroded. Pho

I think we're also jaded now, in that all expectation that a photo is a totally truthful artifact produced by a physical process has long since been eroded. Phone camera software tries to create the 'best' image. When the Bay Area had orange skies, everyone noted how their phone cameras were auto-balancing out the orange. Zoom touches up your face. Yesterday's Pixel announcements emphasized changing lighting after a photo is taken. You kind of have to go out of your way to see a recent photo which _isn't_ manipulated in some content-informed way. So when we see an upscaled, colorized image ... maybe it's not an accurate reflection of the past. But we're no longer used to seeing an accurate reflection of the present, so of course we don't balk at the plausible-but-perhaps-mistaken color choices or interpolations.