Netflix recently added the sitcom “A Different World” to their catalog, and they’re touting it as “high-definition”. To get there, someone apparently used AI to upscale footage, and the results are pretty terrible.
The intro credits already raise alarm bells, with mangled hands, misaligned facial features, bungled logos, and overall smeary lines that don’t meet up.
In other words, it’s all the hallmarks of sloppy AI…those shortcomings are apparent throughout the show.
PetaPixel has several good, albeit horrifying, screen caps, like these:
Personally, I’d very much like to live in a different world from this one, one with less AI slop.
