I hear you. Two years ago I went to my dad's and I spent the afternoon "scanning" old pictures of my grandparents (his parents), dead almost two decades ago. I took pictures of the physical photos, situating the phone as horizontal as possible (parallel to the picture), so it was as similar as a scan (to avoid perspective, reflection, etc).

It was my fault that I didn't check the pictures while I was doing it. Imagine my dissapointment when I checked them back at home: the Android camera decided to apply some kind of AI filter to all the pictures. Now my grandparents don't look like them at all, they are just an AI version.

What phone it was? I am sure that there is a lot of ML involved to figure out how to denoise photos in the dark, etc., but I never noticed anything that I'd want to describe as "AI filter" on my photos.