Netflix brought back A Different World of AI-upscaled nightmare fuel

Nothing ruins nostalgia like mangled text and melting faces.

Nothing ruins nostalgia like mangled text and melting faces.

Jess Weatherbed is a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

Thanks to AI upscaling technology, the version of A Different World that’s currently on Netflix won’t look how you remember it did when it aired. And not in a good way. The “HD” remaster of the 1980s sitcom being streamed is a nightmarish mess of distorted faces, garbled text, and misshapen backgrounds.

People started spotting the issues shortly after Netflix added the Cosby Show spin-off to its service in February,

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