Pixel 10 Pro 10x zoom is AI slop dressed up as photography

Stop us if you’ve heard this about flagship Android devices before — Google’s new Pro-Res Zoom on the Pixel 10 Pro fabricates detail with AI instead of capturing it with the lens.

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The Pixel 10 Pro, launched in August 2025, uses a 5x optical zoom lens. Beyond that, it depends on artificial intelligence. Google’s “Pro-Res Zoom” applies a diffusion model to generate detail the sensor never recorded.

Google brags about 10x and even 100x zoom, but beyond 5x the phone isn’t capturing reality anymore. It’s spitting out AI guesswork.

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