I had high hopes for the new generation of artificial intelligence-powered photo-editing tools. I wanted to bring the dead to life.
My late grandfather had a reputation in my family for his good looks, earning him the nickname the ¡°Okinawan James Dean.¡± I have just a few grainy black-and-white photos of him when he was young and I hoped to restore these images to their full glory.
The earlier, buzzy crop of AI image tools have largely been text-to-image models, where you input a prompt like ¡°a tabby cat in outer space¡± and then receive a surreal synthetic shot. But a rash of recent tech updates have improved the ability of various AI applications to manipulate existing images without turning the subjects into distorted and strange versions of themselves.
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