I don't think it's unreasonable at all, and should be done on those big computers in the cloud! In fact, for a few years there has been a Best Photos feature in LrWeb, a proof of concept that has gone nowhere, but I came home with 500+ photos on Saturday and would have loved to leave LR to find all the ones that are out of focus, apply compositional logic like Best Photos to point out the likely favourites etc.
I'd also like AI to learn my editing style and feed it into the Auto button or a preset. Can't it understand that (say) for images that are 1 stop underexposed I typically increase Exposure .25 and Shadows .5, and then do those steps for me? And can't it see that with certain types of images, I usually do certain things? So let's say it sees that with high key or low key images (it's got to recognise those) I often add a little positive or negative vignetting. Or where there's a lot of sky, I typically add a sky mask with a subtracted linear grad, and drop the Highlights and a little Exposure. Do what it thinks I would do with these images.
But from a very different angle, I'd like to see more disclosure of AI changes to images. Here I'm thinking more in terms of Photoshop and the Generative Fill, but I'd like to see an "AI fakeness" measure that reports how much of the image has been AI-generated. In simple terms, this might say that 1% or 35% of the pixels are faked, for example, taking us beyond the crude boolean. That 1% might be a relatively-innocent edit and the image may be judged to remain a "photograph", while the latter might tip it into being a "promptograph" and unusable in many environments while no doubt welcomed in other circles. A camera club might make a rule that 0.5% is acceptable for one competition and 5% for another, while a news agency might use 0.1% to trigger human review to verify that the photographer has only edited dust spots or phone wires, for example, and hasn't added or removed something that might change the photo's meaning. I don't know if you've yet experimented with
Content Credentials in Photoshop but if you load CCA-tagged files into the
online Content Credentials tool you can identify the presence of AI-generated content, but not the degree. What one does with that knowledge is another matter, of course.
