From dbafb90b2eb257fb3d4f65dd63ccb1ab1973c42a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohan Kumar Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:15:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] New note: AI scrapers & upscaling algorithms --- content/notes/ai-scrapers-and-upscaling-algorithms.md | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/notes/ai-scrapers-and-upscaling-algorithms.md diff --git a/content/notes/ai-scrapers-and-upscaling-algorithms.md b/content/notes/ai-scrapers-and-upscaling-algorithms.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..617e967 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/notes/ai-scrapers-and-upscaling-algorithms.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +--- +title: "AI scrapers and upscaling algorithms" +date: 2024-03-12T19:14:48-04:00 +--- + +Using neural nets trained on other people's work to create (and often profit from) new work in their style without compensation is problematic. I don't think that doing the same for upscaling algorithms is. + +Upscalers can reduce the hardware requirements for games, support remastering old media, etc. which isn't really the same as laundering someone else's creativity and profiting from it at their expense. Upscalers feel more like bicycles for the mind than crude replacements for them. + +I haven't thought through this fully, and I'm open to being proven wrong.