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Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson
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PodcastPractical AI
Generating product imagery at Shopify
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Shopify recently released a Hugging Face space demonstrating very impressive results for replacing background scenes in product imagery. In this episode, we hear the backstory technical details about this work from Shopify’s Russ Maschmeyer. Along the way we discuss how to come up with clever AI solutions (without training your own model).
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Featuring:
- Russ Maschmeyer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Advent of GenAI Hackathon
- Shopify’s HF Space for background replacement
- Shopify Magic
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