Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
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Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
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Re: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
#2Up until recently, to insert yourself into an image generation algorithm, you had to use a technique like Dreambooth, which involves finetuning the model itself with a new mapping of the subject to a rare token.
Meta just released and productionized a new technique that doesn't require finetuning at all.
This enables a whole host of new possibilities... People can now be inserted into scenes or outfits at will without any sort of time consuming model training.
Re: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
#3Up until recently, to insert yourself into an image generation algorithm, you had to use a technique like Dreambooth, which involves finetuning the model itself with a new mapping of the subject to a rare token. Meta just released and productionized a new technique that doesn't require finetuning at all. This enables a whole host of new possibilities... People can now be inserted into scenes or outfits at will withou…
This will be great for people on Instagram.
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#4I know exactly why Facebook / Meta are researching this.
Just imagine the possibilities for advertisers: Instead of telling someone how happy they would be if only they bought your expensive car, let's just spam them with AI pictures of themselves sitting in said expensive car, ideally next to some very attractive other people that match their dating preferences.
Facebook has all the data they need to create very pleasant dream scenarios for you. And they have the connections to monetize those dreams. Didn't the Expanse have a scene with someone addicted to living in a fantasy world? I thought it was meant as a warning, but this wouldn't be the first time that an elaborate warning would be misunderstood as an instruction manual.
Re: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
#5I know exactly why Facebook / Meta are researching this. Just imagine the possibilities for advertisers: Instead of telling someone how happy they would be if only they bought your expensive car, let's just spam them with AI pictures of themselves sitting in said expensive car, ideally next to some very attractive other people that match their dating preferences. Facebook has all the data they need to create very ple…
This is a much bigger thing than the llama3.1 release. Llama 3.1 doesn't really help Meta's bottom line.
But content creation and ads are Meta's killer app. By having a model that doesn't require finetuning, they just changed the whole game.
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#6The future of Netflix isn't going to feature DiCaprio or Zendaya. It will be you, your wife, and your friends on the screen as hobbits adventuring to Mordor.
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#7The future of Netflix isn't going to feature DiCaprio or Zendaya. It will be you, your wife, and your friends on the screen as hobbits adventuring to Mordor.
Is this a common desire? I have absolutely no interest in watching myself inserted into a film or TV show.
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#8The future of Netflix isn't going to feature DiCaprio or Zendaya. It will be you, your wife, and your friends on the screen as hobbits adventuring to Mordor.
This hypothetical future gets brought up a lot, but would the novelty of something like that really hold up for more than one or two viewings? There's nothing stopping you from replacing the names in an eBook with the names of people you know personally, but beyond young children I can't see anyone actually being enamored by that.
Re: Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation
#9To be clear for folks this is "fine-tuning" ;) DreamBooth from 2022: https://dreambooth.github.io.
Might want to update the HN title to reflect the paper title. It's really just applying multiple techniques that have existed. Paper's title is "Imagine yourself: Tuning-Free Personalized Image." Nice paper though!
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#10The future of Netflix isn't going to feature DiCaprio or Zendaya. It will be you, your wife, and your friends on the screen as hobbits adventuring to Mordor.
Is this a common desire? I have absolutely no interest in watching myself inserted into a film or TV show.
No, it’s why the we invented the phrase “main character syndrome” for people who exhibit this behavior.