Not a fail but a bit of a dilemma. I've been experimenting with using Copilot to help process some of my photos as my skills in Lightroom still need a lot of work. For me, if I can get a photo to look how I want without adding anything to the data captured by the camera then that is an acceptable part of processing and not creating anything fake even if AI is assisting in the process. My problem is knowing whether Copilot is just doing that processing using the data available or is taking information from elsewhere and applying it to my photo at which point it has gone beyond assisting the processing workflow. As it is working from a JPG I'm dubious as to whether it is only using my photo data. Here's an example of an image that I processed myself that I wasn't overly happy with and what Copilot did with me typing in the edits I wanted to acheive (enhancing the Milky Way core, noise reduction, star reduction and colour / tone adjustments). All of these can definitely be achieved from the information in the original RAW files by someone with more skill than me but I'm not convinced the JPG will allow it. Next time I do a shoot I might see what Copilot can do with the RAW data.
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I quite like the result apart from the grass is too green in the edited image and it's probably a bit over-exposed. What I've found with Copilot is it does a few good edits but then you ask for another subtle change and rather than just adjusting what you want it messes the whole thing up. This isn't just when editing photos, I used it to create a poster last week and was really good with suggestions of tweaks and additions but then it would often come to a very minor request to tweak something and ruin the whole thing. I learned to download the image when it was nearly there and then start a fresh process which seemed to help.
