The Poetry Camera creates and prints poems about anything it’s pointed at: animals, people, objects, and landscapes. It photographs using AI. Much like an old school  instant camera, there’s a camera lens on the boxy frame, which scans the subject. Below it, there’s a slit where the receipt-like paper prints out the poems that the AI Poetry Camera digitally writes. Looking like a cartoon camera, with the sizeable shutter button and viewfinder, there’s also a nostalgic sense about it.

The AI language model that the Poetry Camera uses is from Anthropic named Claude 4. It’s the reason the device can write poems almost instantly using literary language. The user can choose the type of AI-generated poem they want, from haiku, sonnet, and limerick to alliteration and free verse, using the built-in knob. So far, the images and poems aren’t stored digitally on the Poetry Camera, meaning that the only copy the user has is the printed receipt.

The nifty video below explains all: