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What model does this use? Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

https://huggingface.co/fal/AuraSR

https://upscayl.org/

https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel

https://skylum.com/luminar/upscale-ai

https://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/super-res...

https://www.upscale.media/

https://ai.nero.com/image-upscaler

https://imgupscaler.com/

etc.

I'll just add one more as a happy customer who would never upload personal photos to some AI service: ACDSee [0] has local AI tagging and super resolution upscaling without any associated cloud services or subscriptions, it's just a one time purchase lifetime license - basically a lightroom classic competitor.

[0] https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-studio/ai/

ACDSee - wow, it's been a while since I saw this name!

For the not familiar: it's been one of better photo viewer apps on Windows in early 2000s. At some point I learnt about IrfanView though and moved to it. (And then moved to MacOS).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACDSee

XnView is good & multi platform. :)

https://www.xnview.com/en/

Seconding this, their XnView MP version works on various platforms, too: https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

I especially like the batch operations, for when I want to do stuff with format conversions, resizing, EXIF data and other things. Really pleasant software.

I used IrfanView before then, it was honestly great for Windows. It was mentioned in the parent comment, here's their page, too: https://www.irfanview.com/

But my use cases have been regular image operations, never really the fancy AI stuff, no idea what the software landscape there is like (have to mention, given the topic).

Last time I heard it was before I switched to FastStone

Very cool. More of these AI capabilities need to be available locally without managing a Python environment.

> Anything that sets it apart from the dozens of other open-source/free/pay upscalers?

This needs a very compelling answer since it's asking for a Netflix* subscription to do 50 images in a month.

* Or whatever streaming service that's providing decades worth of content for $15 a month.

Haha I mean you could also argue Netflix is underpriced?

Is this post a spam submission?

The website looks like a super generic landing page template; the kind you find when you search "youtube video downloader" and similar.

Take that "#1 AI Image Upscaler" banner for example. #1 according to who? The AI Image Upscaler Academy Awards panel?

It's important to remember that these upscalers will hallucinate new content. Especially when law enforcement tries to use these to find suspects from blurry photos. See this example from the lower left of their front-page demo where it adds a person to the boat: https://imgur.com/a/Vo3zlO3

Lets upscale the grassy knoll and see if we can see Ryan Gosling

https://petapixel.com/2020/08/17/gigapixel-ai-accidentally-a...

I'm thinking the right way of doing it is to embed in a viewer. So that the original stays untouched but visible quality gets better with new technologies.

Google login only? Not interested. I’m trying to reduce my dependence on Google properties.

"Top interior design trends" - title of the login page?

Ah - based on https://kitchengpt.io/room-design

Maybe they're cranking out AI SaaS products to see what sticks. I was going to say low effort, but it's not zero effort and does offer some kind of service. I could have used some AI help for my kitchen design, I hated the process.

Upvoted because your ToS is very clear about the images we scale aren't used to improve training. Thank you for that.

I have some pretty old photos I may have to pull out and upscale. They're from back in the old 1MP camera days.

This looks pretty good! Results of roughly this caliber are already really common with local, and freely usable tools and models though. Picking one randomly: https://github.com/jtscmw01/ComfyUI-DiffBIR

The Reddit StableDiffusion and related groups have a ton of upscaling workflows that use diffusion models, GANS and the like to dream up the additional pixels for extreme zoom-and-enhance use cases.

Are you planning to provide an API for uploading images?

You also have a typo 'with with', see our report: https://triplechecker.com/s/88266/imageupscaler.io.

No free trial? Pass.

Those should be legally forced to be called Hallucinators.

Honestly, this is the first time I've seen "hallucinate" used usefully and properly. I get that putting legal teeth on this idea is difficult and fraught with pitfalls, but I believe the benefit outweighs the risk.

Similar to, but more useful than, when food producers lobby for fake versions of their food to be labelled as such, and to perhaps not have that name.

Should we legally call image editing software "bag of assorted image processing algorithms"?

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Where do you live where you feel that this is an important issue for your legislators to focus on? It sounds nice!

Where do you live where your community only has room for one piece of legislation?

to be fair, every government of a reasonably prosperous country is trying to figure out how to control the potential AI economy.

if not legally, we should at least as a community remind people that it's basically making up the details. personally I look forward to seeing it used in court and completely tanking a case or two. that should draw some attention to the danger.

I'm going to try my astrophotography pics

Nothing works.

> Can the Image Upscaler be used for enlarging images other than just photos?

Ehh