When I used the trial of Topaz photo AI I saw slight improvement to an image but it was enough for me to purchase the activated program. After saving the image it was vastly different to the previewed image in Topaz. It looked very over edited and had strange cross hatching that was not present in the preview. The preview in topaz showed subtle changes and would also continuously update the preview even when only moving around the zoomed in image and not changing any settings. I was using RAW images and I tried both using the Lightroom Classic Plugin option and also opening directly in Topaz Photo AI. Neither time were the previews anywhere close to the final saved images.
Topaz Photo AI [v1.4.2] on [Windows 10pro]