[bjackman]

I don't really understand the point of this usecase. Like, can't you also imagine what the photos might look like without the damage? Same with AI upscaling in phone cameras... if I want a hypothetical idea of what something in the distance might look like, I can just... imagine it?

I think we will eventually have AI based tools that are just doing what a skilled human user would do in Photoshop, via tool-use. This would make sense to me. But just having AI generate a new image with imagined details just seems like waste of time.

[bibabaloo]

Why take photos at all if you can just imagine them?

[bjackman]

Well, that goes to the heart of my point. I take pictures because I value how literal they are. I enjoy the fact that they directly capture the arrangement of light in the moment I took them. That

So yeah, if I'm gonna then upscale them or "repair" them using generative AI, then it's a bit pointless to take them in the first place.

[gretch]

If you want 2 people to look at the same photo and share the same experience, you have to fix the photo.

If you leave to imagination, it's likely they each imagine something different.

[w4yai]

Not everyone has a great imagination.

[Filligree]

Read up on aphantasia.