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It's more than likely anonymized, aggregated data that mostly just counts how many times a given picture was visited globally. If it's over X times, by at least Y unique devices and can be accessed publicly (I.e. Random Microsoft server can access it), then they probably upscale it via AI and redirect future navigations to their version of the picture.

Such simple heuristic also circumvents most (or all) the concerns about medical images.


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