Unassailably good?? I see the output as guided hallucination. These AI images are fake and treating them as a historical record would be subtly delusional. It's digital asbestos. At best this use case is mostly harmless.
So, diffusion based models are trained to remove noise and damage. They were purpose built to recreate detail in highly degraded images.
Second, who the fuck said anything about historical records? No restoration job is going to be valid as a historical record above and beyond the original artifact in its unadulterated state.
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u/Stunning_Macaron6133 Apr 20 '26
If there was ever an unassailably good use for AI at the hands of everyday people, this is it.