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jaakkoc

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    Comment #49142296

    Check the 2nd note of the blog post (best viewed with desktop)

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    Comment #49142282

    I disagree - the human face is the hardest target exactly because (most) AI upscalers make up face traits and alter expressions. The blog post you linked uses ChatGPT, which uses g…

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    Comment #49142215

    Thanks for the feedback, I explicitly added that now to the blog post. The wording on this comment was off. That model is listed in the "Acknowledgements"-tab of the application. T…

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    Comment #49142113

    It is what it is with the title length

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    Comment #49095313

    Thanks. Yeah, I used to do the tug-and-pull of scaling, then adding noise and sharpening, scaling a little more, adding more noise, adding more sharpening, etc. to ad nauseam. And …

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    Comment #49082199

    Full disclaimer: the Enlarger app is something I did. Fuller disclaimer: this kind of a "postmark"-sized pic blowup test case is borderline unfair to every model in the comparison,…

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    Show HN: Enlarger • A local upscaler that keeps detail instead of smoothing it

    Hey everyone! I know there are gazillion alternatives out there especially with AI and all, but this nevertheless is my take on it. I created it because I was frustrated with the o…

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    Comment #48944894

    Crazy times we live in that a president can do this.

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    Comment #48937250

    Cool. Now do an accessible version. (/s)

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    Comment #48936538

    Seems like it was $25k worth of tokens