Word of warning, get ready to be rickrolled like you’ve never been rickrolled in the past. Thanks to AI software, you can now fool your friends with Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” in crisp UHD.
spotted the video, which was uploaded by YouTube user Revideo in late January, only to be recently discovered over the internet in general this week. Revideo said they used an AI-powered program to scale up the video to remaster the clip in 4K and RIFE (Flowframes) to smooth it out to 60 frames per second. We’ve seen other people use similar software to update one and one from before World War I. Considering all this, it is surprising that it took so long for someone to apply the same treatment in “Never Gonna Give You Up”. After all, it’s just one of the favorite videos on the internet.