Apple Is Toying With an AI Image Editor
It’s unclear whether the project will make it to any Apple products, but you can try it out now on GitHub.
By Adrianna Nine February 9, 2024
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/a ... age-editor
With the help of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara), Apple has developed an AI-powered image editor that responds to text-based commands. A demo is now live on Hugging Face, though it’s unclear whether the project will ever make it to any Apple products.
Apple’s model is called MLLM-guided image editing, or MGIE, with MLLM being short for “multimodal large language models.” This jargon means MGIE leverages a large language model capable of mixing natural language processing with image inputs, which is vital for any AI-based image editor. Rather than using sliders, filters, and other manual image-editing tools, MGIE users can simply tap out a quick text prompt that tells the model what they want their result to look like.