Generative AI has increasingly been used for artistic creation, but little work has explored how it shapes the experiential meaning of practice. We consider how generative AI might transform the embodied and tangible process of instant photography through the UnReality Camera, an AI-mediated instant camera. The UnReality Camera prints a photo of the environment augmented by a user's spoken words as generative input. In a design probe, we explored how generative AI shapes people's perceptions of both photographic output and the broader photographic process. Although users valued artistic control, they also appreciated the creativity afforded by stochastic unpredictability. The waiting period for an unpredictable output elicited anticipatory suspense, and the camera's physical form evoked ownership and connection despite artificial generation. We discuss how people make sense of instant photography's experiential qualities when generative AI is embedded, and how their opposing affordances reshape interpretations of each other's experiential meaning.

翻译：生成式AI在艺术创作中的应用日益广泛，但关于其如何塑造实践过程中的体验意义的研究尚显不足。本文通过人工智能驱动的即时相机UnReality Camera，探讨生成式AI如何改变即时摄影中具身化与实体化的创作过程。该相机能打印出由用户语音输入作为生成式素材增强的环境照片。在一项设计探测研究中，我们探究了生成式AI如何影响人们对摄影作品及更广泛的摄影过程的认知。尽管用户重视艺术控制权，但他们同样欣赏随机不可预测性所激发的创造力。等待不可预测输出结果的过程引发了预期性的悬念悬置，而相机的物理形态即便在人工生成环境下仍能唤起所有权感知与情感联结。本文探讨了当生成式AI嵌入即时摄影时，人们如何理解其体验特质，以及这些对立的功能可供性如何重塑彼此体验意义的解读。