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If it was AI enhancement, the entire image would have bizarre artifacts, which it doesn't. It's likely that the faces were washed out by the light and the orig
by CommieBobDole 3y ago
If it was AI enhancement, the entire image would have bizarre artifacts, which it doesn't.
It's likely that the faces were washed out by the light and the original photographer many years ago 'enhanced' it by scratching some facial features into the developed photographic plate, which was pretty common at the time.
It probably worked because nobody made giant prints of the photo until now when it was scanned at high resolution.
- chefandy 3y ago> If it was AI enhancement, the entire image would have bizarre artifacts, which it doesn't. a) That's absolutely not always the case with current tooling, especially professional NN-driven tooling from Adobe and the like. b) This isn't an ai-generated image-- these tools just create detail where there isn't detail. What it has to add to reconstruct a railing, flat surface, or repeating pattern is a lot more straightforward than trying to reconcstruct a blurry face. > It's likely that the faces were washed out by the light and the original photographer many years ago 'enhanced' it by scratching some facial features into the developed photographic plate, which was pretty common at the time. c) Those faces aren't scratched out anything. The shapes are far too organic and unnatural looking. Those forms and misinterpretations of what's there are absolutely AI-generated. I'd bank my retirement on it. I've done this work professionally, and I've been doing photo manipulation for 30 years.
- sdflhasjd 3y agoThe pigfaces are in the getty "original", but it doesn't display any metadata about when it was digitized annoyingly. https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/turbine-of-a-hydroelectric-plant-at-the-niagara-falls-1924-news-photo/548146913?adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/turbine-of-a...
- eesmith 3y agoThe image was used in a 2017 article at https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/issues/2016-17/011617/icy-ascent.html?language=english https://scienceworld.scholastic.com/issues/2016-17/011617/ic... and with the same artifacts so digitization must have been before then.
- tobr 3y agoThere are obvious scratch/pen marks on the right side of the “pig face”, so I think the simplest explanation is that the nose happened the same way.