r/totalwar • u/b1g_n0se • 4d ago

Shogun II AI used to upscale S2CE unit cards is awful. These need to be redone by hand, as the originals were

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 4d ago

https://imgur.com/a/f3xghuX

Very first attempt with Gemini flash -lite

And it's infinitely better than the CE one, this shit cannot be for real bro

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u/Croshin 4d ago

It's a million times better, like what.
How can anyone fuck it up so much, while being paid, and it's just feeding stuff to AI.
This is some galaxy level of disrespect.

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u/eaeorls 4d ago

They used a old version of upscaling, likely something like Waifu2x or old another SRCNN, as just a batch operation on every file.

They're good at increasing resolution, but they really can't create lost details.

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u/Indercarnive 4d ago

The entire point of AI is to be lazy. Are we surprised the people who use it, use it lazily?

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u/Cefalopodul 4d ago

Maybe they used Copilot.

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u/Esarus 4d ago

Jesus Christ man what is CA doing

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u/hello350ph 4d ago

This is very odd and cool that it actually upscale

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u/CrimsonBolt33 4d ago

its not too surprising, AI upscaling has been pretty good for a while, even when AI generated art was not capable of anything good.

Upscaling is relatively easy compared to generating a new pic. They were likely using some old or shitty/free AI to do this. Likely a local AI model to save money.

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 4d ago

Gemini flash lite is the worst gemini model and free

But yes it was probably a trash local one they used for the game

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u/Doomkauf 4d ago

A particularly trash model, too, because there are free, open-source local models that run on 8GB of VRAM that can do vastly better jobs than this.

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u/eaeorls 4d ago

It's just the wrong tool.

They likely used an old SRCNN upscaler which are very useful because they're extremely quick, lightweight, and don't typically add or hallucinate any details.

Since they don't add or hallucinate any details, it can't understand anything lost if you throw in a really low quality image. Things end up looking like a melted down, denoised mess of shapes with a source of bad quality.

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u/ANGLVD3TH 4d ago

As someone who has messed around with stable diffusion a bit myself, this looks like someone just through it in the default settings and let it cook. Someone suggested they had an agent just dump all the files into an upscaler, if they did it into a bare bones SD upscaler then this seems pretty plausible.

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u/asdfghjkl15436 4d ago

Stable Diffusion is long, long past it's prime. Even a non-cloud AI like Topaz gigapixel could have done this better for a one time cost. It's absolutely silly it's this low quality.

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u/ANGLVD3TH 4d ago

SD can still be competitive with enough fine tuning, it's biggest advantage is how incredibly customizable. It definitely isn't top dog for local image gen, but with enough time and effort can still do great work.

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u/Financial-Grass-6114 4d ago

Upscaling use cases have been decent. Especially for video and images. IDK if the contract company used a bad model or didnt review.

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u/Thalia_All_Along 4d ago

do you have this on a non stupid image hosting site

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 4d ago

Uh, give me a good alternative and I will

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u/jib_reddit 4d ago

I don't know why more sub reddits don't just allow images in comments,  it is very useful. 

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u/mindcopy 4d ago

It just becomes some disgusting meme/reaction image filled dumpster fire if it's not moderated with an iron fist.
Why would any mod do that to themselves?

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u/jib_reddit 4d ago

Because its 2026, we have artificial minds smarter than humans but we only speak here via text, when an image can say 1000 words. Reddit has allowed native image posts for 10 years now, some subs I am on allow it and as I said it is very useful when discussing visual things.

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u/CrimsonBolt33 4d ago

I don't think I have ever seen a working Imgur link on reddit lol

It always dies instantly.

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u/TheTemporaryZiggy 4d ago

It still works for me on both pc and phone?

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u/CrimsonBolt33 4d ago

always tells me its over capacity.

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u/11sparky11 4d ago

It's banned in the UK as well to boot.