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- Sony has recently experienced backlash over the Xperia 1 VIII’s new AI Camera Assistant feature.<\/li>\n
- In comparison shots shared by the company, all of the AI \u200b\u200bsuggestions looked blurry and overexposed compared to the original.<\/li>\n
- Sony has now responded with clarification and new examples of the tool.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
You may have noticed it by now, but Sony managed to bring the internet together to praise the inclusion of its new AI Camera Assistant feature for the recently launched Xperia 1 VIII. The distrust in marketing was so great that everyone from Carl Pei to Marques Brownlee was making fun of it. After an intense backlash, Sony has now offered a response.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nIf you can’t keep up with the situation, Sony recently made an effort to show what its AI camera assistant is capable of. To do this, the company shared side-by-side comparisons, which included the original photo and one of the four suggestions offered by the tool. However, in every instance, the AI \u200b\u200bsuggestion seemed significantly worse than the original.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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