Yeah it seems very influential. But do u know whether there’s a privacy notice somewhere of how data are handled? I scrolled to the end of your friend’s site and skimmed through the repo/issue but couldn’t find it.

Plus, an issue was raised about license and I didn’t see any. Without a proper license and sufficiently clear usage/restrictions, these knock off sites might happen more often without anyone to take responsibility if something bad happens.

On a side note, thanks to this now I’m aware of Replicate to deploy ML tools.

Used it on an old, blurry photo of myself when I was 4, I'm astonished!

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Tried a photo of me swimming and wiping my face off. My hand covers my face in the photo. The "restored" version put eyes, nose and mouth on my hand anyway...

Damn, I just noticed that this is probably a rip-off. Will have a look at it

Woosh

Thanks! Why are there 2 versions of this site tho?

I don’t know much about it, but maybe this is one of the places where encrypted computation in AI is important, which I heard there’s still quite some ongoing research and certain operations cannot be done. Tho it goes back to issues of trust, especially with black box models even if it’s open source to some extent

https://github.com/Nutlope/restorePhotos

It’s a actually a friend of mine, will Tell hin to add a link

EDIT: It’s actually NOT the source code. It’s highly influenced and probably forked off it. Wouldn’t recommend uploading images there because nobody knows what happens to them

where did you find the source code? I’m on mobile and couldn’t find any buttons to click to lead to more documentation of the site/app

My picture came out looking worse lol

Thank you for pointing that out.

I want to amend and clarify what I said. I didn’t mean that hobby projects necessarily mean they’re irresponsible, many things do start out as such and I didn’t mean to discourage that.

It’s more that hobby projects that don’t have basic information like source code, how to contact them for feedback, could be dangerous.

Esp now when the entry level to these is much lower, which is great but I think both hobbyists, developers and users should be encouraged to think more about what they putting out and/or utilizing.

For example, the training datasets could be labeled by outsourced severely underpaid/compensated workers from developing countries. When there are more hobby projects like this popping up and starting to turn into a business, it may encourage more of such controversial activities.

It’s actually open source and you can see what’s happening!

nah wtf, don't post shit without consent

True, tbh I'd only use these free online services for memes/random photos of people.

Personal photos would definitely make use of some locally/offline run A.I. upscaler/enhancer like Topaz's stuff. Only downside is that you can't convince everyone to get a nice GPU with +6GB of VRAM so its this unfortunate grey zone that people that want to try this but only have phones/tablets would have to wager what online services to use.

Doesn't fix discoloration problems

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Same here, I tried two pictures and it’s not myself anymore

True.

Although to be fair sometimes these start out as small hobby projects and then get more professional. I don’t think https://Palette.fm had a full privacy policy in the beginning but now the guy that runs it does the thing full time It seems (and was a Google engineer previously).

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.

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

That’s quite impressive actually, not many apps and websites support Live Photos from iPhone.

You don't need to login to use it

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