Anyone know how image background removal by 'ai' works?
I'm wondering if it's full-on theft-gen-ai or if it's some lesser sin? Perhaps standard machine learning?
Asking because fam member uses #Canva a lot and she uses that background-removal all the time.
(It takes me hours to do the same thing that canva does in ten seconds. Very depressing.)
Any word of such tools in floss?
(ETA, I know about the various manual methods already.)
#noai #GnuIMP #inkscape
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