Improved Wikipedia AI Modernizer
Improved Wikipedia AI Modernizer
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I....what? Who thought this was a good idea, or even a thing that was needed? Why would you need to 'modernize' historical artwork? Why the great flying fuck would you do this by putting it through an AI program that - extremely fucking crucially - changes all of the minor details of the piece? This is absolutely terrible. Whoever worked on this needs to unplug all of their devices and go peel some potatoes.
Check out my milk bread posts if you're into potatoes.
Can you share more about what information you think is lost in the high fidelity generations like the lighthouse and colossus, especially given you can toggle the images?
The fidelity with the lines and subject is pretty high right now via gpt4 vision and controlnet, but I could work on getting it higher -- Which images bother you the most and what level of fidelity/auto restoration would cause you to have a more positive reaction?
Thanks for the feedback!
My problem is the basic concept. These are historical documents, and you are tampering with them. It's like translating the Declaration of Independence into leetspeak. As a one-time gag, it's worth a chuckle, but the idea that it would be an 'improvement' or a 'modernisation' is an insult. The 'fidelity' of your process is irrelevant. You do not and should not need an artifical 'higher resolution image' of a centuries-old painting.
That wooly mammoth mangina is not an improvement on the original.
I'm going to lock "I'm old greegggggggg" into the generation prompt
What are you doing? That painting shown on Wikipedia for the lighthouse of Alexandria is an actual painting, you can't just replace that with another random image and say look this is better. The painting is the painting, with its flaws and character and historical aspects.
Please stop and delete this.
The drawing is the original and the painting is the AI image :)
On that image too, I can't even see any difference in the lines at all -- which differences are most obvious and upsetting to you?
Thanks for the feedback!
Yeah I meant the drawing, the original. I would consider that a painting, but that's semantics.
One of the biggest issues I see with this is the two people in the bottom right. They are naked and most likely slaves. One of them has a lighter skin color and the other a darker skin color. Whilst it isn't the focus of the original drawing, it is a part of it, because it is a part of history.
In the new "AI improved" version, not only is all detail lost and are there straight up mistakes, the light colored slave now has clothes on (implying it's not a slave) and the darker colored one is simply deleted. Rewriting history by deleting slavery using AI is a HUGE issue and highlights why you should absolutely not do this.
The original contains so much more information and context, you are deleting all of that. Basically everything that made the original worth anything and worth including in the article is gone.
If you say you can't see the differences you are full of shit, get the fuck out of here.
Absolute garbage
Thanks for the feedback!
How is rewriting history an "improvement"? I fear the day when this will actually be uploaded to Wikipedia (be it in the open or secretly) and history will be erased by it.
Kinda interesting to see what AI can do but I really hope you didn't actually upload these to Wikipedia
It's a chrome extension that loads/saves them to an external DB and let's you toggle between them
Some of these are more clear, easier to grok, have more information etc, all while looking more beautiful. But the images on Wikipedia are usually selected based on specific relevancy, not just being the best illustration. Often there are better illustrations available, just that they are more removed from the subject, so they don't get picked.
The first examples make my previous opinion change a bit. The first three kind of work: they are improvement over later depiction, they add a layer of speculation with more quality, why not. But you really need to be careful about proposing "improvements" of primary sources, see the comments you get here or on imgur. The fresco with 4 character is an example of what should not be done: you turn a roman fresco into a renaissance painting (looks like Rubens style?).
Your tool can be useful, you changed my mind about it with the lighthouse of Alexandria reconstruction. But really, choose your examples more carefully. Some are akin to writing a manga version of Batman and calling it an improvement. It is a core difference in style that not everyone will like.
Yes -- I must never use the word 'improve' again that is clear haha -- Do you like 'modernize' 'update' ? which words are least upsetting?
Somewhere else someone gave me the idea to build different fine tune models that are more aware of styles and techniques from different periods. Thanks for the great feedback I appreciate you!
I wanted to not cherry pick examples and so I just did 15 images and posted them to see how the 'anger' reaction has changed since last time.