Many sitcoms from the 80s and 90s evoke warm memories of fuzzy colors on a static CRT screen. So Netflix is adding Different world Her catalog seemed like a call to nostalgia and face-glasses, at least until Ai-A-Assisted appeared on screen.
With this AI boost, no one asked for it, Hellman College sometimes felt a bit like it was melting, with indirect design distortions everywhere, and the script being rewritten into what looked like an alien language. Meanwhile, the cast's faces and hands sometimes distorted as if something was crawling under their skin.
Admittedly, I was a little put out after seeing Tiktok. Videos Highlighting the distorted results of AI's influence on the show. If anything, these videos replicate the results of AI's lack of intelligence.
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Upscaling is when you take old, low-resolution footage and make it fit on high-resolution displays. When done right, with computer-aided artists going through the footage, it can be a subtle but effective way to make classic shows look sharper. When done poorly, you end up with what looks like inhuman dentures and throw pillows from another planet. To be fair, Netflix may not be solely to blame. Different world Owned by Carsey Werner. But Netflix is still bringing this strange exploration of the valley to subscribers' screens.
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Artificial intelligence failure
This is becoming a pattern. Artificial intelligence is creeping into entertainment in ways that sound great on paper but turn out to be extremely bizarre and disturbing in practice. Just look at what Prime Video has done with AI-generated dubbing. While it's not exactly terrible, it still has a ways to go if you want to hear all your favorite performers sound like they're speaking a foreign language without giving you a headache.
There's also Netflix creating entirely new AI elements, as with the documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, which used AI to recreate Gabby Petito's voice reading her journal entries. Her family gave their permission, but that doesn't make it any less disturbing.
AI has incredible potential as a tool, but that's the catch. Published without human direction, you'll get some annoyingly weird choices, even if some of the final output looks fine. So, while AI can help clean up old footage, there need to be more humans involved to ensure that characters' faces don't turn into Picasso paintings.
For entertainment companies desperate to cut costs and speed up production, these drawbacks may seem worth the cost savings. They hear “AI can help with high-end older shows” and think, “Great, no need for expensive remastering—AI can do everything automatically.” AI isn’t a genie granting HD wishes to SD shows.
Some people may not notice the problem, but it doesn't take close inspection to see the rise. Different world Less a memory of the past and more a distorted vision of the future. If this is the best AI can do without human oversight, perhaps Netflix should wait until the technology is good enough before slapping it on classic TV and before the reason people watch old shows has nothing to do with the picture price.
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