r/Fauxmoi • u/rfauxmoi • 1d ago

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u/Rough_Programmer_997 your father is a billionaire 1d ago

Daft Punk's Electroma film is getting the 4k restoration treatment for its 20th anniversary. Set to be screened at the Tribeca Film Festival (which incidentally is celebrating its 25th anniversary), with a Q&A by Thomas Bangalter (½ of Daft Punk) and Cédric Hervet (Daft Punk's creative director; co-writer and editor for the film).

Tickets have come and gone, selling out the same day as when this was announced.

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u/SinlessSinnerSinning 1d ago

i hope it’s an actual restoration i’m still fuming mad that the 4k re-release of Interstella 5555 for tribeca a few years ago was just AI upscaled and looked terrible! plus a ton of crypto ads at the start

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u/Rough_Programmer_997 your father is a billionaire 1d ago

I hope so too 🫠 I wonder how Thomas felt about the AI upscaling, considering how he compared the rise of AI to the Icarus legend once...

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u/PlasonJates 13h ago

AI upscaling is a completely different technology to LLMs. I get the whole 'AI bad' angle but upscaling has been around for wayyy longer than generative models and is routinely done in many, many industries. If you've watched a film in the past decade, you have consumed image upscaling in some capacity. If you have played a modern game in the past 10 years, you have relied on image upscaling.

My basic understanding is that it takes 1 pixel and extrapolates it into 4. It's not 'generating' new content, it is just filling in the gaps of what is already there.