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The removal of the anime Chainsmoker Cat (尼古喵喵) from streaming platforms due to complaints about tobacco product placement contravenes the principle of proportionality and stifles creative expression, an advocacy group said on Thursday, after the Health Promotion Administration launched an investigation that could result in platform operators facing fines of up to NT$1 million (US$31,399).

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…