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Originally Posted by fitne
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That was a special case of using a filter that hid the image, instead of destroying it. The filter basically just moved pixels around in a predictable pattern. Investigators reversed the process to put the pixels back where they started and the image was restored.
AI unblurring won't do that though, it will just mask out the blurred area and invent a new image to replace it. A sophisticated AI will make an educated guess and produce something consistent with the blurred area, but if the information has been destroyed, no process can restore it.