Topic: Converting Gifs to Webm and AI upscaling to 1080p

Posted under General

Hello, I was curious if posting edits of gifs being AI upscaled would have any problem with rules in this website.

I do see that it is not good to post any AI generated content/assisted artwork, but does that count for AI upscale edit of original artwork?

Bad Things to Upload:

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  • Low quality submissions: Highly visible compression artifacts, scribbles, low-quality photographs of traditional media (invest in a scanner, people!), "1000h in MSPaint" images, computer generated mosaics, cropped images, anatomical diagrams, bad edits, screenshots, artificial upscales, AI/neural network edits, etc.
    • Artificial upscales include anything like "normal" upscaling, waifu2x, neural network upscales, and similar.
    • Sensible integer upscaling with nearest neighbor (a.k.a. without smoothing filters) is permitted for pixel artwork that would otherwise be too small to see well.

scorpio26 said:
Ah thanks! now i know that they have to not be low quality.

No, AI/artificial upscales are forbidden in general - no matter the quality.

From the Edits section of the uploading guidelines, highlighting the relevant part with bold.

  • Edits of images need to be at least on the same level of quality as the original.
    • Low effort edits (adding stories, changing text, bucket fill coloring, cutting out parts, etc.) are not allowed.
    • Translating speech bubbles from any language into English is permitted, however.
      • We only accept an English translation and the original language; we will not host additional translations.
  • Coloring "bases" (template images) are not permitted if they haven't been performed by the original artist of the base.
    • We will only accept up to five (5) versions of any given base.
  • Neural network and AI edits are not permitted, regardless of type of edit (uncensoring, coloring, denoise, etc.).
  • Rotoscoping and photomorphs are only permitted if they completely transform the entire reference so that no part of the original remains visible
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