upscaled tag necessity

Related to topic #154, is there a reason to keep the upscaled tag? Almost all these are also images that use "highres fix" (2nd img2img pass). For those that aren't tagged and do use some form of upscaling, there's so many different workflows for it and it's so commonplace to upscale now since the majority of models are trained at either 512px or 768px, I'm not sure it's worth adding a tag specifically for it. For some model architectures it's even directly built into it's process. There's plenty of metatags that already provide functionality to find and filter these posts.

... (I only tag my images as upscaled since that's what highres fix really is), so imo it's useless to have the highresfix tag.

According to topic #154, part of the reason that highres fix was nuked was because it could be used interchangeably with upscaled and it was decided to not have two very similarly purposed tags like that. With that in mind, upscaled is (maybe?) a useful tag, as there are many uploads that aren't upscaled (for example; every one of my self uploads), so I see it as still having search/filtering utility.

Maybe it is OK. I did some more queries to see how many posts are and aren't tagged with upscaled and some smaller images actually are still upscaled, which I wasn't expecting but it seems to be the case.
Doing a search for mpixels:>1.05 -upscaled has:prompt status:active and sampling one of these results at random they're almost always upscaled, and there's more than 100 pages of results. In contrast, mpixels:<1.05 upscaled has only a single page of results. However, mpixels:<1.05 has:prompt width:<=768 actually still has a lot of images that are upscaled after inspecting the metadata, so they're missing the tag.
Ideally this could be handled on AIBooru's end to tag these automatically but I can script something to go through the entire catalog if needed. I'm also trying to think about this future-wise and I imagine it's going to become less and less clear if something was upscaled or if it matters it was upscaled.

BUR #149 has been rejected.

nuke upscaled

Making this as a gauge to see how much support this idea has.

Voting up, but if it's kept I'd work on something to tag the ones that can be to make the tag useful.

mkbin said:

I did some more queries to see how many posts are and aren't tagged with upscaled and some smaller images actually are still upscaled, which I wasn't expecting but it seems to be the case.

You are correct. I looked at a number of posts from your queries and it would seem like the posts would just need to have the tag added. If anything, I think this makes it more necessary to keep the tag as some users may not see them as upscales when they actually are.

I suspect that maybe with smaller images people get the idea that "upscaled" doesn't really apply to them because they consider them too small or something, then again there's a lot of posts uploaded daily that are poorly tagged so it could be laziness too.

Personally I don't see myself ever searching for, excluding, or checking for the tag, but it does convey some information that would be lost if we nuke it. I doubt posts are often mistagged as upscaled. Many are missing the tag but this is true for most tags.

antlers_anon said:

Personally I don't see myself ever searching for, excluding, or checking for the tag, but it does convey some information that would be lost if we nuke it. I doubt posts are often mistagged as upscaled. Many are missing the tag but this is true for most tags.

Personally, I've rarely (if ever) seen posts mistagged as upscales in all of the time that I've been on this site. I think it's just an under utilized one, like some of the other metatags and probably needs regular checking to make sure the appropriate posts have it.

The highres fix tag was/is useless, imo - idk if it's still around. I personally never use upscaled either, but see it as something useful to know as far as a process. I wouldn't search for it, but neat to know if I happen to see the tag on something I guess. The majority of my uploads were using highres fix upscale, then an additional img2img upscale. I typically don't care to tag every little thing as that can be very tedious and not very useful to a lot of people - tags such as 3rd/1st party edits and whatever else some of the meta-tags are.

The bulk update request #149 (forum #1156) has been rejected by @Talulah.