The AI adds a face in the background when zooming in on photos

Jomppe Vaarakallio has been obsessed with image restoration for 30 years, but he has never seen anything like this before. While using Topaz Labs’ Gigapixel AI to zoom in, he discovered that the program had added a Ryan Gosling face for him.

To be clear, this is not an attack on Gigapixel software. Vaarakallio told PetaPixel that the results of the app in everyday use are amazing. His experience shows you how computers process things that look like blurred faces.

Vaarakallio told PetaPixel: “It’s such a small part of the picture that I’m lucky to be able to encounter this situation.” When I found the face, I tried to zoom in again and the result was the same...But as I discovered later, there’s also a check box if you don’t want the software to recognize faces. After that, the face was gone.”

Wisely speaking, if you’re using Gigapixel AI to zoom in on your portrait or landscape photos -- and we must admit that it usually works well -- you might want to uncheck face detection...Unless you want Ryan Gosling’s face everywhere.