New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- Someone took a photograph of a nice textured brick wall using a high-resolution zoom on a smartphone, only to find the wall seemed to be made of fur.

Another user framed what he thought was a well-framed doorway, and discovered that there seemed to be a non-existent tree behind it.

An influencer shot a selfie but found, to her disgust, she had turned into a veritable oil painting with the smooth editing the phone camera did on her face.

Let's face it, for the past decade, artificial intelligence (AI) has been quietly reshaping phone photography. Companies have a fancy name for it: computational photography, and it's on by default. You can't escape it, even if you tried.

Techniques like portrait blur, night mode, ...