On: AI camera with no lens

[nonethewiser]

I see no reason to consider this a camera. Its just an image generator.

[whywhywhywhy → nonethewiser]

Think its more interesting as an art piece when we take into account the amount of AI and processing phone cameras do that crosses at times into the areas of "just an image generator"

[nonethewiser → whywhywhywhy]

I didn't say its not impressive, just that there is nothing about it that is a camera.

[jeffhuys → nonethewiser]

Sigh. Thanks for your observation, I guess? Party-pooper! ;p

[capableweb → nonethewiser]

It's a camera in the general sense of "result is a image" but not a camera in the sense of capturing physical properties of our world and convert it into bytes/pixels/analog film.

I guess it's a "camera" as much as 3D software has "cameras" for controlling what the viewport is pointing towards.

[nonethewiser → capableweb]

> It's a camera in the general sense of "result is a image"

So is the midjourney discord bot a camera? Microsoft paint? Your printer?

You could say its kinda a camera because it takes pictures are your location. But it is in no way seeing anything (obviously, because there is no lense). It's just sliding some preset parameters around based on location.

Again, not that its not impressive, but camera seems like the wrong word for it.