We may have a new candidate for our roundup of botched art restorations. And this time it isn't an over-enthusiastic amateur human restorer who took their own hand to the work responsible, but AI.
A Chat GPT user decided to ask OpenAI's chatbot to 'restore and colorize' the world's oldest photograph. People have been quick to point out that result probably bears little resemblance to the scene that Joseph Nicéphore Niépce saw from the window of his estate in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes.
