alt Hacker NewsThere was a bit of a furore when he tried colorizing old B&W movies… imagine if he’d had AI to do colorization, upscaling and sharpening back then!
Guess we’ll still have Ted’s Montana Grills for a while…
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Forgeties79 • today at 8:21 PM
Rightfully so if you ask me. Out the gate think about the implications of determining, say, skin color. I’m not saying “under no circumstances should it be done” but I also think people don’t appreciate the importance of the decisions made and the politics/implicit biases under the hood. I’m not even getting in to artistic intent and impact on lighting here either.
Colorizing b&w images is still debated to this day.
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Those colorized movies were awful, AI would have just made them awful in their own way.
Outside of film restoration, old movies should be enjoyed the way they were made.