That&#x27;s a problem with this specific architecture. If it&#x27;s not sure what color something is, it goes with an average of all the colors. When a brighter color would be more realistic, even if the exact shade is wrong. Some people have suggested ways of fixing this above.<p>But just the fact it guesses the right colors at all is really cool. Previous automatic colorizations I&#x27;ve seen were very very crappy or required lots of human input. Or both.<p>And while these colorized photos do look a bit dull, I like them better than black and white. Something about black and white photography makes it look fake to my brain. It doesn&#x27;t register the same way. Even really bad colorizations make images feel more real. I once saw very badly colorized video of WWI, and it was really fascinating. I actually felt like I was watching a real event that had actually happened. The same is true for these images.