No. If their training set isn’t too far off what you use it for, it is valid. Just because it’s not guaranteed, doesn’t mean it’s not more accurate than hitting sharpen and squinting.
You’re fighting against “would it be reliable” but that isn’t the claim.
The claim is could it be better than human, and the answer is yes, it just depends on how well trained it is and the dataset.
But this is also entirely testable. I guarantee much like Go, if we set up a “human vs AI guess the blurry image” competition that AI will blow us out of the water. It’s simply a data * training issue, and humans don’t spend hours on end practicing enhancing images like they do playing Chess.
Again - it won’t be perfect, obviously. It will have false positives, of course.
Doesn’t mean it can’t be better than human.
Also GANs are pretty irrelevant, the model structure has nothing to do with the theory.