Images & Audio
Enlarging a picture invents the detail it appears to recover
Upscaling produces plausible texture where there was none, which is useful for presentation and dangerous…
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Images & Audio
Generating pictures and sound, and the controls that actually matter.
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Images & Audio
Generating an element is easier than generating a picture
Single objects, textures and backgrounds are the most reliable output of an image generator, and they fit…
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Images & Audio
Period and place come back as pastiche unless you supply the details
Images set in a specific time or culture default to the most widely circulated version of that setting…
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Images & Audio
A picture of a person who does not exist still resembles somebody
Generated human figures are the part of an image with consequences attached, and the practical questions…
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Images & Audio
A generated clip is a shot, and a sequence of them is a different problem
Short moving images are produced one shot at a time, which means the difficulties are continuity, timing…
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Images & Audio
Removing something from a photograph changes what the photograph says
Generative editing applied to real pictures is technically the same operation whether it tidies a…
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Images & Audio
Showing a generated image as a concept sets an expectation you may not be able to keep
Pictures made in minutes to explore a direction get read as finished work by whoever sees them, and that…
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Images & Audio
Asking a tool to describe a picture is reliable about the subject and not about the detail
Reading images rather than generating them is a genuinely useful capability with a specific failure…
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