My Pixel phone's camera is hallucinating, and sometimes that's exactly what I want
Some AI processing can't hurt, in most cases.
Modern phones process the photos they take; that's a fact of life, with the computational photography algorithms being especially busy in photos taken by Pixel phones. Google built its reputation for photo quality in the early years of Pixel phones largely thanks to those algorithms, especially with the advent of Night Sight, which debuted on the Pixel 3.
