From the very first frames, you can tell there's something's off about Netflix's AI-powered remastering of "A Different World."
  • Wren@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    13 hours ago

    Is there a way to see what it looks like without using that garbage TikTok? The link only leads to there.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 day ago

    If it was shot on film, all you have to do is a new scan, some colour correction and you’ve got something good. I have a blu ray version of the original Star Trek and it looks fantastic (except for when you see the obvious makeup, of course). But I guess for that you have to hire actually skilled people who want *gasp* money. Better just feed it to some slop machine for pennies.

    • olicvb@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Damn right!

      Now how long before our web rips are polluted with this nonsense 🤔

      • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        22 hours ago

        They already are but just look into what you’re downloading. It’s been an issue with anime for years already. Even in the post HD era most anime is an odd resolution around like 900p. This led to many careless releases where uploaders either simply downscaled to 720p or upscaled to 1080p without any extra work, which created artifacts, ringing, etc. https://blog.kageru.moe/legacy/resolutions.html for more info

        For legacy/pre-hd anime studios overwhelmingly lazily upscaled 480p or 576p dvd releases to 1080p for Blu-ray releases. This resulted in a lot of the problems you see with lazy AI upscales of non animation content: while the overall image appeared sharper there was a loss of finer detail, grain, etc. Some people prefer the sharper image over the more detailed image, some prefer the original with more fidelity. Of course, a proper remaster done with care by hand by an expert would’ve been great and probably balanced these issues but that’s not what they did 99% of the time, they just shit it through a hardware upscaler (as software ones didn’t exist yet). See azumanga daioh, love com, hunter x hunter 1999 version, etc

        It sucks because it makes the whole automated stack downloading a bit of a pain

    • itslilithEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      LLMs are much more likely to write bogus content spelled perfectly, this just looks like a typo

    • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      If that’s the only typo or issue you’re able to find it doesnt always mean AI, typos and bad sentence structure have been part of mainstream articles for about a decade now, they probably had something other than a skilled human edit or check for issues but not everything is always AI