ENHANCE!!!

Looks like one of those stills from Ren and Stimpy, or Sponge Bob.
- Hell yeah, the "gross-ups" lmao
- I watched Ren and Stimpy daily as a kid. 🥰

Oh god, I cannot unsee the buttons as nipples from now on 🙈🙈🙈
- Haha fuck. I saw them as eyeballs and you took that away from me.

Aftermath of exploring worlds under drainage pipes.
- Mario meets the Teenage Meth'n Turtles.
  
  Mario meets long term workplace illness. Unfortunately I don’t think Mario belongs to a union. Bowser be like “just one more castle and you’ll make it big here Mario”

"4K" apparently just means "some higher resolution than pixel art" now
- Yeah, that botheres me, too. Also when a game is labeled to have "psx graphics" and it just means that they use low res textures without filtering but at the same time it has real time shadows, requires 4GB VRAM and uses bunch of other modern techniques.

How did it know to put an M on the hat?
- Because either the person who made this face the AI some extra prompting, which might explained the other oddities, or this isn't the work of AI at all.
  
  The more I look at this, the more I doubt an AI was involved. Too many aspects of the clothing, body, etc are just way too consistent.

Why is the crotch greyed out?
- Mario is suffering from incontinence these days. Dude is well over 70 years old maybe 80. He was a master plumber back in the early to mid 70s, so he would have been 25 bach then, at least.

Is this like when porn performers complained about 4K because you could see their imperfections?
- They did that?

Turns out all that jumping about in the sewers was not the best for Mario’s health

I see AI still can't render hands well. Apparently pixelated feet give it problems too, judging from Mario's nightmare fuel feet.
- There's AI that can sometimes do hands okay. It still often fucks up, so a human has to curate the work. And ideally selectively prompt the AI to regenerate parts of the image until the whole thing is perfect. I think Midjourney has the best performance so far. You can take a look for yourself in one of the many AI art communities. They're sadly not as active here as they were on Reddit, but there's imageai and stablediffusion communities (I forget the instance)
  
  Yeah I have stable diffusion (installed on my PC, works great with my rtx 3080 12gb) and it is scarily good. You have to inpaint and regen a fair bit if you want ideal results but it takes no time at all.
  I can see how designers and artists are concerned.

I love that anti-AI propaganda is always
"Look what AI does when it has no human oversight or QA!"
Yeah no shit, that's why it's a tool for artists to AMPLIFY their work, and not a replacement for the artist.