I want photos to be a record of my perception. I want them to match what I see in front of me as closely as possible. I do not care if data is mangled to make this happen — in fact, the reason I love my iPhone's camera so much is because it mangles the raw sensor data so much. Apple's computational photography pipeline is state-of-the-art, and it is designed to make photos look as close to my perception as possible. All my favorite sunset photos have all been taken on my iPhone.

I do not like these AI photo-editing features. Or rather, I do not like the use of them, and will not be using them myself. The technology itself is stunning and exciting! But it entirely defeats the purpose of taking a photo for me. If someone blinks in a group picture, I want the blink to stay. If there's some obnoxious piece of garbage in the background, I want it to stay, because the whole point is for a photo to be a representation of reality consistent with my eyesight at the time it was taken.

I truly love candid photos. I am open to computational photography and even AI processing, but it should exclusively serve the goal of making the photo more candid. I feel that the AI photo editing features being pushed out these days will only make photos less candid.