AI don't trust techbros

[Fullstrength Motleypuss]

Mertel kermbat!

Ermagerd!

 

[Ungnome]

How to make a Mortal Kombat artbook when you don't have the original art? AI upscaling! What could go wrong?

https://x.com/Daniell3C4st/status/1981282456809435479

Doesn't look like AI upscaling to me. Looks like something more akin to 2xsai or hq4x or something like that. Common algorithms to upscale pixel art that predate current AI systems.

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Not sure if this goes here or the “Capitalist Dystopia” thread…but Steve Burke over at Gamers Nexus made a video on their consumer advocacy second channel explaining the nature and dangers of the current “circle jerk” nature of the AI industry.

 

[wonko the sane?]

What's going on is that there's a massive AI bubble caused by the AI companies promising, but not actually, investing into each other: which is buoying the stock prices of all of them.

 

[NovaSaber]

Yeah, Hank Green made a video about that too.

 

[Pocket]

Doesn't look like AI upscaling to me. Looks like something more akin to 2xsai or hq4x or something like that. Common algorithms to upscale pixel art that predate current AI systems.

Nah, it's too smeary to be either of those; those retain solid blocks of color and turn jaggies into 45 degree bends. Think custom designs in Animal Crossing New Horizons. This definitely looks like AI or, at best, whatever they used for texture upscaling in BioShock 2 Remastered.