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SpinCharm t1_j944ry1 wrote

It’s interesting but it generates faces that aren’t faithful to the original. I tried an old photo of myself, sister, and four close friends when we were kids. It was grainy, blurry and black and white.

The result was that two of my friends looked correct, likely because they were the two that were clearest in the original. But everyone else was changed. It wasn’t me, my sister and my friends, it was four new faces that bore only slight resemblance to the original.

It’s using AI to construct approximate facial features, but in doing so, generates new faces. It isn’t enhancing existing ones, unless the existing ones are very clear to start with.

It’s still nowhere close to being able to fool the brain. We’re hard wired to recognize faces. We know instantly when there’s even the slightest difference, and this thing creates massively different faces when it has to.

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miiMike t1_j95dsw9 wrote

Same here, I tried two pictures and it’s not myself anymore

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vze33jng t1_j966yu9 wrote

Tried a photo of me swimming and wiping my face off. My hand covers my face in the photo. The "restored" version put eyes, nose and mouth on my hand anyway...

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sweetalkersweetalker t1_j9780bo wrote

Are you SURE your hand didn't have eyes a nose and a mouth back then?

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vze33jng t1_j9cglzi wrote

>Are you SURE your hand didn't have eyes a nose and a mouth back then?

Not anymore; There's photo EVIDENCE!

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DamnAlreadyTaken t1_j99r1bo wrote

I tried with a couple of photos I took with very old phones (10+ years). It did exactly what I could have done with photoshop, blow up the resolution smooth the picture, the artifacts are the same. I felt really disappointed. Was expecting something magical

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SpinCharm t1_j99rcn8 wrote

It actually only does anything of significance to faces. Bodies, backgrounds, sky etc are mostly just blurred or unsharpened. So it’s not looking to recognize a tree then improve it with a much clearer tree. But if it finds a face it can make assumptions about the eyes and replace them with supposedly exactly the same eyes that are much sharper.

Unfortunately the combination of “improving” the eyes, nose, ears, chin, and hair results in something that really isn’t the same person. But to a stranger, it would look like an improvement as they’d have no baseline expectations on what the person actually looks like.

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