Using a neural network to complete lost parts of a canonical masterpiece reminds me of nothing as much as using some kind of necromancer to ask the spirit of th

Using a neural network to complete lost parts of a canonical masterpiece reminds me of nothing as much as using some kind of necromancer to ask the spirit of the artists to complete the picture. And of course depending on the quality of the scholar of the dark arts, we expect a similar quality of the result. So the thing is, the completion is a modern artifact, and fundamentally in both cases it captures the expertise of the reconstructor, and not some kind of essence of the painting.