Reverse upscaling with AI makes AAA games look like it's 1998
c_valenzuelab · x · 2026-09-19
Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela shares a counterintuitive AI demo: "reverse upscaling" of games — instead of enhancing resolution, AI degrades modern AAA visuals into retro 1998-era quality, flipping the usual super-resolution use case.
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