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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

upscaled 4k pictures with advanced AI interpolation

You can't get more information out of the pictures than there is in the pictures. The most an upscaler can do is make the equivalent of an artist's interpretation of a 4k picture.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You cant gain data, but you can make mathematical predictions from that data, which what 'interpolation' means. And the AI part is using a learning model to add in more prediction data based on similar imagery.

[–] kerrigan778 9 points 1 day ago

Exactly, it's performing the job of an artist filling in the missing frames based on the pictures available and based on film of other volcanoes erupting.

[–] comrade19 5 points 1 day ago

It can look at all the other ai interpretations of eruptions and make what it expects people to think it looks like, then one day nobody will know what a volcano eruption actually looks like, just the chinese whispers of ai