Yeah AI upscaling has been around for years, there's phenomenal implementations of it where you legitimately can't tell, and there's godsawful implementations that are thrown together in a matter of 15 minutes, given one pass, and submitted.
Every piece of media I've upscaled (mostly animation) has been great. So far, every upscaled release I've seen posted has been terrible. And yes, it may only have been 2 or 3, but that makes it that much sadder because only 3 movies have been released with upscales and they wouldn't even take the time to do it well.
It's a shame.
Did you ever apologize to Steve?