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embedding-shapetoday at 4:02 PM1 replyview on HN

I remember CS2 making big news with the "healing brush", that's like 20 years ago or something like that.


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dofmtoday at 4:17 PM

That wasn’t an AI tool at all, though. Neither is pre-2023 content-aware fill, AFAIK.

They are both PatchMatch (well the healing brush certainly is), which is a heroic bit of code. Entirely deterministic statistical algorithm. Not AI by really any definition (including back then)

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