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Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

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Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

#12

Meta does stellar work in AI. I’m quite certain the recent DMCAs were a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. This model is open source in every sense of the word, and they’ve now released two impactful models in the span of a month. This tweet chain is a pretty great overview: https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1643647849824161792?s=61...

Are the weights open source?

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

#13

Meta does stellar work in AI. I’m quite certain the recent DMCAs were a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. This model is open source in every sense of the word, and they’ve now released two impactful models in the span of a month. This tweet chain is a pretty great overview: https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1643647849824161792?s=61...

Are the weights open source?

The weights are not "source".

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

#14
I've been wanting to build an app that will transform a photo into a template for stained glass. Interactive, to choose the "granule" size, merge color groups into one single piece, change border thickness, etc. Something like this would really help there and make it almost a piece of cake.

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are the weights open source?

The weights are not "source".

That is likely true in the most pedantic sense, but in practice, if I create an algorithm that works by using a series of matrix transformations against a set of carefully chosen (read: "trained") matrices and I open-source only the matrix manipulation code but not the specially chosen matrices, I think there's a fair argument to say that I haven't open-sourced the entire algorithm.

In the phrase "the model is open-source in every sense of the word", that, IMO, must include the weights.

Re: Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Everybody

#20

Meta does stellar work in AI. I’m quite certain the recent DMCAs were a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. This model is open source in every sense of the word, and they’ve now released two impactful models in the span of a month. This tweet chain is a pretty great overview: https://twitter.com/drjimfan/status/1643647849824161792?s=61...

Are the weights open source?

Yes
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