Cheap AI is better at removing Henry Cavill’s Superman mustache than Hollywood special effects
When 2017 superhero flick Justice League went through $25 million worth of “extensive reshoots,” there was one particularly unexpected hurdle: Henry Cavill’s mustache. The actor, who plays Superman in the DC universe, had grown the soup strainer for his role in Mission: Impossible 6. But when reshoots for Justice League came around, he couldn’t just shave the thing off, so it had to be digitally edited out. It looked… not great. But can cheap AI do better?
In the video above, one internet user shows how the latest machine learning-powered image manipulation techniques handle the task of facial topiary. The results? Pretty good! At least, pretty good at a low resolution and when compared to one particularly dire shot. (If you look at…
