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FEWebDeveloper t1_j93zbg5 wrote

Reply to comment by mudokin in A site that helps you restore your photos for free! by 1infiteloop

AFAIK it’s using some AI model for restoration and no images are stored within the model or for training. Once the restoration is complete all data related to the image is forgotten.

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banaslee t1_j9505ge wrote

What makes you say that images are not stored?

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JMzzr t1_j952eln wrote

I think they are saying this because it says the same thing on the homepage of the website linked above

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datahoarderx2018 t1_j95bfp8 wrote

Not about this services but https://palette.fm for example explicitly states they don’t store images after they’ve been processed and downloaded, and since that site is run by a former Google engineer with a reputation I don’t doubt it.

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opmwolf t1_j943tgw wrote

AI has to train from something, it can't start from nothing. Nothing is free in this world, there are always strings attached.

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FEWebDeveloper t1_j9444x9 wrote

A training set is different from a running dataset. If AI models just accepted anything in the training set then they would eventually spit garbage out. The models are fine tuned for a specific task on a specific dataset.

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LogicalAnswerk t1_j94w6bm wrote

Its pretrained. This is probably a preview to a host of new products that will come with a price tag.

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justanotherzee t1_j95104k wrote

It's not using other people's photos to make yours high res. There are a lot algorithms to duplicate and replicate pixels to make the images sharper.

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lucellent t1_j94x2kh wrote

This is not how it works lol the model has already been created with other faces, you using it won't improve it or contribute to the model.

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the0past t1_j95ad28 wrote

Nothing is free lol. Using it won't affect it lol.

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entertainman t1_j97v48n wrote

Upscaling compression is probably one of the easiest things to train, because you can run a lossy filter on high quality images you already have images. Same with colorizing.

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