As someone who works on graphics thats real concerning because it blows up a lot of work I do to make sure everyone gets the same experience. Even if every vendor launches their own weird AI post processing thing they're all going to look different and I've lost control of the final output completely.
That's fundamentally different than other techniques like upscaling because if the upscaler is broken I can point at the base image and go "see - thats what it's supposed to look like."
The 100 lowest-paying major US corporations spent $522B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2023.
Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.
The typical worker at these companies earned just $34K last year.
Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid a whopping $14.7M.