A big problem with these new AI techniques as applied to photography is that the algorithms tend to be very opaque, and typically gives very little control to t

A big problem with these new AI techniques as applied to photography is that the algorithms tend to be very opaque, and typically gives very little control to the user. You can get better over time at using the dodge/burn tools, or selection masks, or color curves, etc in Photoshop - and use them at very granular, minute levels. If the final result is not up to your expectations, you know that it’s due to your own doing and you can try again, get someone to help you, watch a tutorial, etc. However, all these magical AI sliders give you very little insight about what’s actually going on behind the scenes, and typically only expose a few vague sliders for the photographer to manipulate, often in an all-or-nothing fashion. If you like what cranking up the "AI Skin Defect Removal" slider does to the texture of the nose but not the tone of the cheek, there's no much you can do to address that. While it makes for cool demos, and the appeal of “one click and your boring sky becomes picturesque” is clear for an entire category of users, this makes them pretty boring and limited as creative tools.