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Seems gruel to even say this as the tech is pure magic, but sad that these videos often get that ultra processed stockfootage look. I would be more impressed to just have bland everyday videos with muted colors, shaky cam and uninteresting people doing everyday stuff.

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I imagine some kind of service could pop up, exactly for that. For pictures, we already have:

https://magnific.ai/

Which seems to have been endorsed by one of the best retouchers I know of (https://www.youtube.com/@pratiknaikedu)

What they are asking for is to have these machine-generated "photorealistic" outputs look more like real photos/videos, not to turn every normal looking photo into a lurid dream-scene monstrosity with completely made up details.

Just a note you can run upscaling on your home desktop with Real-ESRGAN:

https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN

Loras can often achieve that look. No weights though but that would have likely worked to skew it in the 'amateur video' direction.

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