Taking photos, or taking prompts?

Why do you take photos?

Sony’s Xperia 1VIII launched with an “AI Camera Assistant” that suggests entirely new, generated compositions of your pictures.

That way, you don’t take photos. You take prompts. Prompts that generate images that may be a bit like what you saw, but not really. A library of images similar to the memories you could have captured, if you where to have taken photos instead.

That feeling of “wait, that misses the point of taking photos” is indicative of so much art today.

Sony did a wonderful job of helping us understand what we don’t really like about AI generated images.