Agreed. I appreciate his non-destructive, reversible approach to restoration.

You'd think that's the norm but half of the stuff he does seems to be undoing bad restoration efforts.

Heck, I can already restore images somewhat, using Inpainting (in InvokeAI) to select damaged sections of a painting and prompting those areas back into existence. I can even reverse aging and even recolor using similarly ML-assisted methods.

Mythbusters and the human curiosity it represents will always be human-centric, I think, but seeing as how TV networks wouldn't produce a show like that anymore (as opposed to cheaper reality shows or, god forbid, AI-generated shows), the threat is there all the same.

In the case of Baumgartner, how long before AI takes over painting restoration? Julian Baumgartner has already started using the machine learning techniques to assist him. Is the physical act of restoration by hand safe or is there a machine-only option somewhere over the horizon?

It's the same with threads apparently 🤷‍♂️