Restoring Old Photos With AI Has Real Issues
'Restoring' Old Photos With AI Is a Fundamentally Broken Concept
https://petapixel.com/2026/03/28/restoring-old-photos-with-ai-is-a-fundamentally-broken-concept/
When I was in college, I had the opportunity to spend a semester abroad in Florence, Italy to study. There, I took a "Chemistry of Art" class that
Filed March 28, 2026 at 6:35 am
The fundamental argument of this post is that the process AI uses to restore a photo is a prediction... a prediction it often gets wrong. I think AI does a good job of colorizing black-and-white images when you're not asking it to do anything else. However, when a photo is severely damaged, its facial predictions often alter the subjects' identities.