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Digital Camera World
Tom May

ChatGPT is truly terrible at photo editing... and that's great news for professional photographers

Screengrab of ChatGPT request to edit a photo of Tom May on a beach.

I've spent the last week putting ChatGPT through its paces with photo editing tasks, and I'm delighted to report that it's spectacularly rubbish at it. Not just mildly disappointing or "needs improvement". Properly, wonderfully terrible. 

And as someone who's watched AI encroach on creative territories with the relentless determination of Japanese knotweed, this incompetence feels like a blessed reprieve.

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