Sony's AI Camera Assistant is Exactly as Bad as It Looks

When a major tech company starts bragging about a new AI feature on social media, odds are that feature just failed every aesthetic test known to humankind. Sony's new camera AI assistant doesn't just fail to improve your photos—it somehow manages the impressive feat of making them worse than what you'd snap manually. We're not talking fine details here: colors look like they've been saturated in a highlighter pen, details blur where they shouldn't, and the whole thing screams "who let the AI pass photography school?"

The problem isn't that this AI is swinging for the fences and missing. Nope, it's failing at the basics—like understanding what a foreground subject even is. It's as if the model learned photography by watching 144p TikTok videos and decided to apply that aesthetic to every single shot.

Here's where it gets fascinating: why did Sony decide to show these photos at launch? Either the company didn't realize they were terrible (nightmare scenario), or they genuinely thought they looked good (even worse nightmare). Both cases point to a catastrophic failure in quality control somewhere up the chain.

After spending a week with the device, the verdict is crystal clear: turn on the AI assistant, your photos get worse. Turn it off, and you're back to normal smartphone-level shots. It's like hiring a photography coach who only knows one rule—and that rule is broken.

The kicker? Sony isn't the first company to promise AI-powered photography miracles and deliver universal disappointment. But at least most companies have the decency to not parade disasters as victories in their promotional materials. Here, the irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife.