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Netflix AI Team Just Open-Sourced VOID: an AI Model That Erases Objects From Videos — Physics and All

Netflix just open-sourced VOID, an AI model that doesn't just erase objects from video — it rewrites the physics of entire scenes.

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This represents a major shift in video editing technology, potentially disrupting the VFX industry by automating complex physics-aware object removal that previously required weeks of manual work by Hollywood teams.

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  1. Netflix open-sourced VOID AI model

  2. Model performs physics-aware object removal from video

  3. Previously required weeks of VFX team work

  4. Solves floating object problem in video editing

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Publisher excerpt: Video editing has always had a dirty secret: removing an object from footage is easy; making the scene look like it was never there is brutally hard. Take out a person holding a guitar, and you’re left with a floating instrument that defies gravity. Hollywood VFX teams spend weeks fixing exactly…
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