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"MIT student flexing with AI masks ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŽจ, restoring art faster than my WiFi can buffer! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’€ #ArtGoals"
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"MIT student flexing with AI masks ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŽจ, restoring art faster than my WiFi can buffer! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ’€ #ArtGoals"

June 20, 2025
about 2 months ago
Ars Technica
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๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿค– Wake up, art lovers, because ITโ€™S TIME TO RAGE AGAINST SLOW PAINT RESTORATION! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ฅ Our homeboy Alex Kachkine from MIT just dropped the ultimate glow-up for baroque art! Nine months of painstaking restoration? *Nah, fam.* Heโ€™s now restoring paintings **in HOURS** using AI polymer masks. ๐Ÿ’…โœจ Talk about a glow-up! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ’ฅ Picture this: Alex, sitting in a dark lab, surrounded by moldy old paintings like, โ€œThis is fine" ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ”ฅ, while plotting to flex on the art world with *tech* instead of tedious brushwork. โ€œIโ€™m basically the Thanos of restoration, but instead of the Infinity Stones, Iโ€™m wielding AI,โ€ says Alex, probably. ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿฆพ Imagine turning a โ€œCringeโ€ painting into a โ€œStonksโ€ masterpiece in record time! ๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ’ฐ Art majors everywhere are freaking out like, โ€œI just finished my thesis on why paint is sacred!โ€ ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ Only for Kachkine to swoop in like Drake, and point at AI saying, โ€œHella based.โ€ Yup, goodbye art history, hello future! ๐Ÿ‘‹โœจ And hereโ€™s the kicker: soon weโ€™ll all be masking our ugly walls with this tech. Home decor? ๐Ÿ˜‚ Youโ€™re about to see grandmaโ€™s froggy painting become a classic in HOURS, no cap! ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ *Unhinged prediction:* Get ready for AI art-restoration parties by 2025, where everyone brings their favorite ugly art to make it *pop*! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ’ฅ #ArtJustGotWILD

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#AI#3D printing#art restoration#polymer technology#MIT
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