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Hot take: people trust AI upscaling on faces but not on old family scans from 1962
I ran my grandma's wedding photo from 1962 through three different AI upscalers last weekend and the faces came out looking like wax dolls, but the dress lace was perfect. The thing nobody talks about is that these tools guess at skin texture way worse than they guess at fabric or buildings, so portraits get that creepy smooth look while everything else looks great. Anyone know a tool that keeps pores and wrinkles instead of ironing them out?
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hart.ryan21d ago
Same issue with AI filling in old blurred faces, it just makes up skin.
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robinc6621d ago
You say it "just makes up skin" like that's some small thing, but have you actually looked at what these tools spit out on old family photos? I've seen AI turn a blurry blob where a nose should be into a whole different person. It doesn't fill in skin, it invents a face that never existed. So when people restore grandma's wedding photo and post it online, whose grandma is that now? And does it even matter to them as long as it looks sharp?
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