Commons:Deletion requests/AI modified paintings uploaded by User:Fecece
AI modified paintings uploaded by User:Fecece
[edit]- File:Giuseppe Bezzuoli - Princess Maria Antonietta of the Two Sicilies, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.jpg
- File:Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, by Scipione Pulzone.jpg
- File:Portrait of Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, by Scipione Pulzone.jpg
- File:Portrait of Violante Beatrice of Bavaria, Grand Princess of Tuscany.jpg
- File:Justus Sustermans - Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany - Poggio a Caiano.jpg
- File:Justus Sustermans - Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.jpg
- File:Tiberio di Tito - Portrait of Maria Maddalena of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.jpg
- File:Scipione Pulzone - Official portrait of Francesco I de' Medici as Grand Duke of Tuscany.jpg
- File:Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, by Giovanni Bizelli.jpg
- File:Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany by Scipione Pulzone.jpg
- File:Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.jpg
- File:Portrait of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.jpg
All these files were uploaded by User:Fefecece, who was blocked last February 26, when it was proven to be a sockpuppet of User:Giorgio Pallavicini, who had already been blocked in March 2023. All the files have the same problem: they are photos of paintings that have been upscaled and 'enhanced', using AI. While it is true that some of the original files are not exactly ideal (small photos), the result of those modified with AI is totally contrary to the intentions of our project. As the PD-Art disclaimer precisely states, the photo of a painting must be "a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art". This issue was recently discussed by our community precisely because of another one of these modified paintings uploaded by User:Fefecece. The comment of @Omphalographer: is particularly poignant for me: "Using AI upscaling on a low-resolution photograph of a painting will inevitably result in an image which differs from the original work. No matter how good an upscaler is, it'll never know the difference between a detail which was blurry because it's working from a low resolution photo and a detail which was blurry because the original painting was indistinct (for example). Worse, a lot of AI upscalers are primarily trained on photographs, and will frequently add details in an inappropriate style, like inferring photorealistic, smooth-shaded faces in engravings where those details should have been rendered with patterns of lines". To give a clear idea of how much the AI-edited images differ from the originals, you will find below a table comparing the incriminated files with the source files and, if available, an additional file showing the original painting with correct color grading/details. A final note: the source of some of the files is admittedly incorrect and there is almost never a link back to the original file that was modified. --Kaho Mitsuki (Dis-moi) 14:41, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Delete. These upscaled images are materially worse than the originals. Whatever tool is being used here is inappropriately boosting contrast, causing detail to be lost. Probably the most obvious example is File:Portrait of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.jpg, where a lot of detail in the background (particularly in the dome to the left of the Duke's face) has been crushed to black; there's similar issues with most of the images listed, as well as some questionable color shifts. Some of these paintings could use higher-resolution images, but they need to be sourced from the actual painting, not machine inference. Omphalographer (talk) 17:02, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
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- Delete per PD-Art. These so-called "enhancements" are a waste of storage space. - Sumanuil. (talk to me) 03:24, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
Deleted: per nomination. --P 1 9 9 ✉ 18:02, 10 June 2024 (UTC)