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Failure modes (README Limitations). Prototype models; not robust to heavy degradation or very large motions; may fail to remove degradation or generate unpleasing detail; on lightly degraded inputs such as 720p AIGC video it may over-generate detail and oversharpen, especially at small resolutions like 480p. Method (inference). Do not run it on clean generated footage that is already sharp; reserve it for genuinely degraded sources; compare against the original at 100% zoom for hallucinated texture on faces, text and fine patterns; run it on the final cut only (after edits, lip sync and colour). Limitations. README claims only; no independent evaluation read. Version/date. 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