Years ago, I tried to clean up this damaged photo. My efforts were unsuccessful, but I think I'd do better if I tried again today. But I thought using Gemini to fix it might yield interesting results.
The photo is a lot sharper now, but holy hallucinations, Batman. The Atari 400 has been replaced by an Atari 2600, and the Atari 400 games have been replaced by Atari 2600 games. And a stack of audio cassettes has replaced the CX40 joystick atop the Atari 410 program recorder.
Further prompting fixed some of the issues. But not all.
That's enough fiddling for now. The Atari 400 is there, but its yellow buttons are from the Atari 800 model. I also find it amusing Gemini put an audio cassette into the 8-Track player.
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To be fair, that would be a very difficult photo for a human to restore: the colour mix, the burnt film, the grain and the fuzzy focus/lens quality. If, for example, you were to restore the picture forensically because it was evidence, you'd unsharp it a lot to make the writing legible - but it would not be much of a picture.
The AI makes a perfectly clear image. The stable diffusion algorithm is highly adept at combining elements logically to create the image: no doubt it looked at enough data to power a manned mission to the moon just to get the image right. Where the AI has problems is understanding human priorities, such as truth, morality, and justice. Stuff we have problems with, as well.
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