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Has Anyone Tried Chat Gpt for Photo Editing ?

The Old Ruminator

The Old Ruminator

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Yes, I can edit photographs 🙂


You can:


  • 📸 Upload a photo
  • ✍️ Tell me exactly what you want changed

For example:


  • Remove or replace background
  • Remove objects or people
  • Adjust lighting / color / sharpness
  • Add effects (cinematic, vintage, black & white, etc.)
  • Retouch skin / enhance details
  • Add text or graphics
  • Turn it into a different style (cartoon, anime, oil painting, etc.)

Upload your image and describe the edit you want — the more specific you are, the better the result.
 
I thought I would try some mono images out of interest and then I got a bit carried away.
 

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It seems to me that using AI to edit photos is not very different to using it to create images, which is fairly pointless. The exception might be to ask it to make a specific edit, such as removing a particular object, or improving the definition in an under-exposed area - but there is still the risk that it will introduce hallucinations.
 
ChrisB said:
It seems to me that using AI to edit photos is not very different to using it to create images, which is fairly pointless. The exception might be to ask it to make a specific edit, such as removing a particular object, or improving the definition in an under-exposed area - but there is still the risk that it will introduce hallucinations.
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I’ve got an app, that can recognise my style from previously edited photos and gives me the option to apply it to a new photo. So it recognises the tones/feel of it and can match it. I’ve not had a chance to put it through its paces, I assume it’s the more I edit the better it ‘learns’, and I’m trying to move away from spending lots of time editing
 
JoshW said:
I’ve got an app, that can recognise my style from previously edited photos and gives me the option to apply it to a new photo. So it recognises the tones/feel of it and can match it. I’ve not had a chance to put it through its paces, I assume it’s the more I edit the better it ‘learns’, and I’m trying to move away from spending lots of time editing
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Like in many things AI becomes intuitive. You could say the same for music on Alexa or when you get ChatGPT to write a poem about you and your mates. One day cameras will have the same intuitive technology. More and more it will self edit your photos to provide the image it thinks that you will like best. Generative AI is a learning process but that can only come from past experiences. I say cameras but already they are morphing into smart phone technology.
 
An additional 'bonus' of the ever increasing prevalence of AI slop generating data centres is the huge price increases of consumer SSD drives and SD memory cards due data centres being all consuming of flash memory. Now two to three times the price they were a few months ago! Be nice when the AI bubble bursts.
 
ZombieCake said:
An additional 'bonus' of the ever increasing prevalence of AI slop generating data centres is the huge price increases of consumer SSD drives and SD memory cards due data centres being all consuming of flash memory. Now two to three times the price they were a few months ago! Be nice when the AI bubble bursts.
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I don't think it will. I think a lot of the money being thrown at AI will probably fail to reap rewards (for the company doing the throwing, and AI isn't 'ready' yet to make the returns that companies are hoping for.

However, I do think that as it becomes better it will become more useful (watch any episode of Star Trek and see how they interact with the computer) at some point, and the companies with the money can't afford to miss that opportunity - many of them are massively cash-rich. If AI comes to 'nothing' (i.e. no significant returns), then the status quo continues (which is fine for many of the big tech companies that are already leaders) even if they've thrown away billions on it. If on the other hand it doesn't (even if it's only a 20% chance), then if they _don't_ throw money at the problem they may be out of the race forever and lose their market position (and their billions of cash sitting around won't necessarily let them catch up) - there is limited room at the top for the big tech companies and monopolies are extremely easy to set up (see Google, Microsoft in the 90s etc.). So I suspect most of them know that they may never get a return on their investment, but don't want to miss out if it does pan out.

So it probably makes sense for the big tech companies to throw billions on AI speculatively at this point. Or something like that.
 
ZombieCake said:
An additional 'bonus' of the ever increasing prevalence of AI slop generating data centres is the huge price increases of consumer SSD drives and SD memory cards due data centres being all consuming of flash memory. Now two to three times the price they were a few months ago! Be nice when the AI bubble bursts.
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And the added bonus of increased emissions and water usage :(. A fairly recent study published has shown that AI data centres have similar carbon footprint to that of New York, in addition to water usage similar to that of the global annual consumption of bottled water in 2025.
 
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