DeepFaceLive VS Real-ESRGAN

https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive. This is the first result Google gives me. Rudimentary, but enough to possibly trick someone who isn't knowledgeable enough. Instead of a fully AI generated person, it is a digital face swap. Essentially, you are correct in that the technological leap towards making a fully interactive deep fake is likely far beyond current technological capabilities. Especially for a scammer. Digitally swapping a face sidesteps that technological limitation.

A more lifelike deformer would be running a 'deepfake' layer over your face motion into your 2D character face, but so far I haven't tried it yet. Here is some example of a well known open source 'faceswapper' : https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive

DeepFaceLive https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive You have to create a celeb model first or download a publicly available model

"Advanced AI" is an expression that makes politicians and decision makers to go on a rampage. Don't get your hopes up, the way the world reacted to ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion and stuff like that already suggests all AIs will be pretty much government regulated eventually and people like Eugenia has no way to circumvent this. Add projects like https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLive into the mix and you can see the perfect storm brewing up already...

It's not exactly what you're after, as it's anime specific and you need to process the video yourself (eg disassemble to frames, run the upscaler, then assemble back to a movie file), but Real-ESRGAN is really good:

https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/

It's pretty brilliant for cleaning up very old, low resolution anime.

Just a note you can run upscaling on your home desktop with Real-ESRGAN:

https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

Maybe Real-ESRGAN is a good fit? Even tho it's a couple of years old

I'm glad you noticed! I upscaled the icon from the wiki using Real-ESRGAN's 4xplus anime model, then photoshopped out the text. Worked far better than waifu2x.

A: Try using High-res Fix and R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B as upscaler

Maybe try this one https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN it may work even better.

Screenshotted from the official music video, upscaled to 4k using a state of the art ML model.

Do you happen to remember which chapter has that "scene"? You could also try to enhance it yourself, I did it using Real-ESRGAN, which is really easy to use.