It's funny to see as a joke, but you can go the other way with this too. Image editing models and LoRAs for "previz-to-render upscaling" workflows are actually incredibly useful.

I was just writing about this (scroll about halfway down to the images of Sam Altman - though if you like that, do watch the second video):

https://getartcraft.com/news/world-models-for-film

The best model I've found for this, that almost bakes in full ControlNet capability, is oddly gpt-image-1.5. It's absolutely OP at understanding how to turn low-fidelity renders into final draft upscales.

Here are some older experiments:

https://imgur.com/a/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-5-3fq042U

https://imgur.com/gallery/previz-to-image-gpt-image-1-x8t1ij...

https://imgur.com/aOliGY4

I just wish it didn't require invoking such heavy-weight, slow, and expensive models to do this. I'm sure open models will do this work soon, though.

It's funny how know your meme has to sanitize the 4chan out of memes.

The 'how society would look without x' has been a racist trope on 4chan since way before the cited examples.

What’s going on with that (robot?) dog leash?

OK this is too fun. I did Reverse Anti-Render on a dreary scene in Moscow:

https://imgur.com/a/mqMEPUl

What a beautiful and nostalgic game that was. I’ve never had a game hit me like that since!

Wrong country

The rimigo proxy works for me: https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/nFQN5tx

The link is blocked by imgur themselves, not the British government (authoritarian or otherwise), because the ICO was going to fine them for historic poor handling of children's data. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

If you're in the UK in January, you can probably just look outside and that's approximately it.