• HOM 166: Apple's New AI Clean Up Tool

  • Jan 23 2025
  • Length: 10 mins
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HOM 166: Apple's New AI Clean Up Tool

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  • In this episode, Mikah Sargent explores Apple's new Clean Up feature, part of the Apple Intelligence suite, which aims to remove distractions from photos.

    - Clean Up is a new feature in macOS Sequoia's Photos app that uses on-device machine learning to remove unwanted objects from images
    - To use Clean Up, enter edit mode, select the Clean Up tab, and either click, brush, or circle the object to remove
    - Mikah tests Clean Up on a photo of a puppy with a toy in the background; it successfully removes the toy but loses some pillow texture
    - On a building photo, Clean Up struggles to properly remove a person, distorting the stairs
    - Clean Up has difficulty fully removing an iPhone and keyboard from a spatial photo of Leo Laporte
    - Apple's on-device approach to machine learning, driven by privacy, currently falls short of Google's server-side Magic Eraser feature
    - Clean Up is available on all Apple devices that support Apple Intelligence features, including iOS and iPadOS

    Host: Mikah Sargent

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