Monday, April 20, 2026

Let's Face It, AI




AI-driven image restoration programmes are undoubtedly getting more sophisticated, and their use is clearly much more widespread than in the past. However, I still have reservations about how they treat faces. That little extra smoothing and additional touch of colour too often seem to change a recognisable face into something indistinct and slightly foreign. Interestingly, my AI-driven facial recognition software failed to recognise the AI-rendered restored image of Uncle Harry in today's photograph.



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