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If there’s anything to be learned from my most recent Question of the Day, it’s that anything you watch — whether film, television, or even YouTube — can be carspotting worthy. From sitcoms to drams to animated children’s shows, there’s always a car (or several) to appreciate on screen. The cars don’t even have to…

Chances are, if you’re making a modern-day television show that isn’t based in a metropolitan area like New York City, cars will be an inevitable part of the casting. Well, if the show is based in the U.S., as you know our country’s relationship with public transit is embarrassing and just plain hot garbage and we…

How does a modern latte end up in a fantasy feast scene set centuries before coffee culture existed? Set designers, camera operators, entire editorial teams checking the same footage repeatedly. And still, somehow, a cup slips through.

birefnet-toonout is a fine-tuned version of BiRefNet specialized for anime-style background removal. Created by sprited, this model packages work by Matteo Muratori and Joël Seytre that improves pixel accuracy from 95.3% to 99.5% on anime test sets by fine-tuning on 1,228 curated anime images. The model accepts any image as input and outputs either RGBA…