I don't think this is true - most of the examples people cite look more like they used underpaid contractors to manually recreate storefronts and billboards wit

I don't think this is true - most of the examples people cite look more like they used underpaid contractors to manually recreate storefronts and billboards with shoddy clip art and plain fonts. ML-based upscaling wouldn't replace the hot dog in the background here with a completely different style of hot dog like in this example. https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/qs22ee/this_is_unforgivable/ https://www.reddit.com/r/GTA/comments/qs22ee/this_is_unforgi... The idea that they hacked a bunch of ML models together to do that instead of just outsourcing it doesn't hold up to muster.