There's a ton of room for using today's ML techniques to greatly simplify photo editing. The problem is, these are not billion dollar ideas. You're not gonna raise a lot of money at crazy valuations by proposing to build a tool for relighting scenes or removing unwanted to objects from a photo. Especially since there is a good chance that Google, Apple, or Adobe are going to just borrow your idea if it pans out.
On the other hand, you can raise a lot of money if you promise to render an entire industry or an entire class of human labor obsolete.
The end result is that far fewer people are working on ML-based dust or noise removal than on tools that are generating made-up images or videos from scratch.
On the other hand, you can raise a lot of money if you promise to render an entire industry or an entire class of human labor obsolete.
The end result is that far fewer people are working on ML-based dust or noise removal than on tools that are generating made-up images or videos from scratch.