A Most Peculiar Camera If you haven’t heard, Instagram is over — and with it, apparently, is the concept of a camera itself. Meet Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” that uses location data and various AI tools to generate imagery, instead of old-fashioned, uh, photons. “Paragraphica is a camera that utilizes location data and artificial intelligence to visualize a ‘photo’ of a specific place and moment,” reads the project’s webpage. “The camera displays a description of your current location, utilizing the address, weather, time of day, and nearby places.” “When pressing the trigger,” it continues, “the camera will create a photographic representation of it using a text-to-image AI.” If Susan Sontag said that regular photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, we can’t even begin to imagine what she’d have to say about this thing. Honestly, though, considering how omnipresent cameras — and with those cameras, image-driven social media and algorithm-powered feeds — have been in our lives for the past decade-plus, Paragraphica kind of makes sense as the natural penance. Introducing – Paragraphica! A camera that takes photos using location data. It describes the place you are at and then converts it into an AI-generated "photo". See more here: https://t.co/Oh2BZuhRcfor try to take your own photo here: https://t.co/w9UFjckiF2 pic.twitter.com/23kR2QGzpa — Bjørn Karmann (@BjoernKarmann) May 30, 2023 Mole Talk If you, of course, find yourself asking “but why?” its creator Bjørn Karmann, a designer in the Netherlands, has an answer. “As AI models are increasingly becoming conscious, it will be hard to…New "Camera" Has No Lens, Simply Detects Your Location and Generates an AI Picture of It