[quxbar]

You've never seen those stands at the boardwalk where artists draw caricatures? They're extremely formulaic and rarely resemble the subjects aside from a few distorted features, but humans have being paying other humans to pump out that slop for ages.

[flir]

The difference is that the AI results are accepted as real photos restored, not the caricatures that they are.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/842315653616542/posts/149825...

Random example I just found in a group called "Photo Restoration Facebook Group"