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So this part of the blog post is essentially false: "no generative AI of any kind" I have yet to see a precise technical definition of what "generative AI" mea

So this part of the blog post is essentially false: "no generative AI of any kind" I have yet to see a precise technical definition of what "generative AI" means, but StarXTerminator uses a neural network that generates new data to fill in the gaps where non-stellar objects are obscured by stars. And it advertises itself as "AI powered".

cj 7mo ago
I don't consider photos I take on iPhone to be "AI generated" or even "AI augmented" even though iPhone uses neural networks and "AI" to do basic stuff like low light photography, blurring backgrounds, etc.
- teraflop 7mo ago
  I agree that I wouldn't call these photos "AI generated", because the majority of what you're seeing is real. But that's very different to saying that no generative AI was used at all in their production. "AI augmented" sounds pretty accurate to me. Likewise, if someone posted a photo taken with their iPhone where they had used the built-in AI features to (for instance) remove people or objects, and then they claimed that no AI was involved, I would consider that misleading, even if the photo accurately depicts a real scene in other respects.
- hatthew 7mo ago
  As a photographer and machine learning guy, I would call a lot of modern phone photos AI augmented. AI to stack photos or figure out what counts as the background is a little bit of a gray area, but an img-to-img CNN is about as close as you can get to full AI generation without a full GAN or diffusion model.
inaros 7mo ago
So funny people are downvoting you... https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/ https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/ “StarNet is a neural network that can remove stars from images in one simple step leaving only the background. More technically, it is a convolutional residual net with encoder-decoder architecture and with L1, Adversarial and Perceptual losses.”

cj 7mo ago

I don't consider photos I take on iPhone to be "AI generated" or even "AI augmented" even though iPhone uses neural networks and "AI" to do basic stuff like low light photography, blurring backgrounds, etc.

teraflop 7mo ago
I agree that I wouldn't call these photos "AI generated", because the majority of what you're seeing is real. But that's very different to saying that no generative AI was used at all in their production. "AI augmented" sounds pretty accurate to me. Likewise, if someone posted a photo taken with their iPhone where they had used the built-in AI features to (for instance) remove people or objects, and then they claimed that no AI was involved, I would consider that misleading, even if the photo accurately depicts a real scene in other respects.
hatthew 7mo ago
As a photographer and machine learning guy, I would call a lot of modern phone photos AI augmented. AI to stack photos or figure out what counts as the background is a little bit of a gray area, but an img-to-img CNN is about as close as you can get to full AI generation without a full GAN or diffusion model.

inaros 7mo ago

So funny people are downvoting you... https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/ https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/ “StarNet is a neural network that can remove stars from images in one simple step leaving only the background. More technically, it is a convolutional residual net with encoder-decoder architecture and with L1, Adversarial and Perceptual losses.”