The bullshit "image enhancement" button that they have in shows like CSI is finally leaving the realm of science fiction and entering reality, where it can be revealed that "enhancing" an image from data you don't have is just a word for "making shit up"https://twitter.com/nickstenning/status/1274374729101651968?s=20 …
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A computer doing it for you is just saving you the labor of using your visual cortex's processing power and your own thousands of hours of "training data" of what things look like So you can watch old tapes of TV shows broadcast in SD and it's more pleasant to do so
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But it's never actually doing work that you couldn't be doing for yourself It can never actually show you something that was genuinely *hidden* by the low resolution It doesn't know what the actor's face "really" looks like, it's guessing same as you are
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