Ok, the chatgpt desktop app is officially blowing my mind
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A photographer/videographer is amazed and conflicted by the ChatGPT desktop app's capabilities. They currently outsource tedious photo editing and use an assistant for finishing touches and client delivery. The user notes that continued training of the AI could eliminate the need for their photo editor, saving at least $800 per month, and their assistant, saving $200-$400 per month, raising concerns about job displacement despite the significant cost savings.
I'm a photographer/videographer and I outsource my extremely tedious and time consuming photo editing.
For the past 24 hours (whenever my usage replenishes + $20 I impatiently spent on credits) I have been training the desktop app to edit a photo in photoshop and lightroom classic for me. I include a perfect reference photo that my editor edited as well as my original RAW files. I explained all of my relevant techniques that would be used for editing this photo and told the chatgpt web client to format the instructions the desktop app.
Holy crap. The first image it edited, before I gave it a reference image - was rough, not going to lie. In my own words I described what needed to be done to make it perfect and showed it the reference image. The second image was much improved, but still had some glaring issues. So next I screenshoted the desktop apps thought process, my explanation, and the final edited image and fed those back to the chatgpt web app. I asked it to please connect the dots in a way the desktop app would understand. It gave me like 15 pages of specific instruction to feed back to the desktop app.
The next image was almost perfect. One more round of feedback from the web client and the following image WAS perfect. Mind you - this is not an easy job. It would have taken me 15 minutes to edit myself and it would not have been this good. The desktop app literally spawned two subagents to handle some of the smaller tasks while it worked on the most tedious. Then it can upload the photos to drop box for my review.
Soooooo.....yeah. Now I'm in an interesting position. I don't want AI to take anybodies job. But if I keep training it like this I will not need my photo editor anymore (saving me like $800 per month minimum) and I do not need my assistant that puts the finishing touches on everything and delivers to my clients (saving $200-$400 per month).
Right now im running it on Sol Ultra and it's consuming a lot of usage. But once it has the techniques down I'm hoping it can run on Terra. Even then, I will likely need the $200 per month plan to have enough usage for these edits and my other tasks. But even then - my small business would be saving $1,000 per month in contracted labor expenses. And I'm not wealthy - that would actually be a huge help for me.
Feeling pretty amazed and conflicted over here, ngl.