AI help please

AI will be used continually; it currently is fast and crappy, specifically if the end result will be printed on media and has some physical size to it.  I sat with a Photoshop user using the remove AI feature on a 48 megapixel (full frame Nikon camera image at 200 DPI that 40" high x 60" wide) she thought it looked great on screen.  I had her crop out a section of the final effect and print it at 50%, a size that this company regularly prints.  The result that looked great to her on screen now looked like hell in print because the removed object was in an area that was 5" wide x 9" high, leaving an odd looking area that was clearly visible at 4 feet! 

AI has it's uses, up sampling is an area that I use it for regularly and if you get a good quality low resolution image you can expect to get an additional 300 to 500% increase.

I'm currently testing AI blur, denoise and sharpen stand alone and plug-in applications.  I have tried depth of field (bokeh) filters, but they only work for those who have no concept of what lens created focal field bokeh really is.  Adobe just posted a YouTube video for Photoshop, advertising this effect and the image was such BS.  The object of focus was so far from the background a dime store lens could have done a good job of creating a quality blur.

Attached is a natural bokeh. 

Unfortunately I have to agree with you. Not because I can't see any value in automated tasks such as up sampling but because AI features will be used to abuse people.

Good enough and CHEAP will be the mantra, poverty pay to mindlessly process files for the web. In a very short time human editors will not only not know how to produces mundane edits,  they won't even have the ability to recognize proper images regardless of how they're used.

An example was easily seen on a magazine mailed to my wife. She has her medical prescription insurance through the AARP. They sent her a magazine with an feature article with Kevin Costner, the cover images and the first image in the article was significantly and disturbingly distorted, it took to the third page until I saw a naturally looking image. 

The cover image of Hillary Clinton's New book featuring her image has her head at least 15% oversized because they incorrectly reduced her body to make her slim.

I saw an image in a shooting sports magazine that was an extremely bad composite and an equally bad insulting concept. It's the modern world. 

It's unfortunate but people editing images or creating graphics for the web in my area can make better money and benefits working in the fast food industry. 

In 5 years there will hardly be anyone who can recognize, create or edit quality images, in 10 years, in general practice there won't be anyone who can even recognize a quality image.

Look at the web sites for Photoshop,  Affinity Photo, PaintShop Pro, then look at the photographer sites. WOW!

In the last 5 years, in my semi-retirement I've been focusing on my hobby in photography and applying the standards of my 30+ years editing architectural images I have witnessed a cataclysmic drop in on line quality.  Look at the Faccebook page Peter Coulson Community, you'll see the work of many photographers. Then take a look at the past work of Deverill Weeks as examples.

There is a plethora of new sites with just awful work, near zero sites demonstrating core technology and techniques. Way too many marketing sites!!!

I think the primary motive for software companies developing AI is race to the bottom economics. Help employers reduce payroll. Companies like Adobe, Corel or anyone else in this AI race might want to take a moment and realize the AI toys they're building might just end up gutting their customer base. After all, why would an actual graphic designer need to spend hours manually creating a project in CorelDRAW when a boss/client can just click a button and "poof" the finished project into existence? Why buy or subscribe to CorelDRAW at all if some amateur can crank out something "good enough" with an AI bot?

With a deep enough embrace of AI functions we can tank the entire economy. 70% of it is driven by consumer spending. There is no escape from that math fact. If enough people get their jobs down-sized or eliminated the customer base will vanish. Every "consumer" needs a job paying a livable wage with enough spare income left over after basic expenses in order for him to "buy stuff."

But that's okay. Since America has priced the cost of parenthood out of reach for so many working class people our demographic future is going to be pretty grim. Both working age employees and consumers will be in short supply 20 years from now. The software wizards out there will need focus their AI efforts to help take care of many millions of elderly people.

I agree AI could end up making us dumber. Non-artists are already using it as both a crutch and a scam. AI is killing software coding jobs. I think that's scary. 10 years ago it would have been a good idea for a young person to learn coding languages like JavaScript, Python, etc. Thanks to AI that kind of career path no longer makes as much sense. The result of that will be a brain drain in the software development field. Things like bugs and security flaws will become harder to fix, thanks to a reduced talent base.

Very good comment.