Freepik F Lite, AI images without copyright issues

As the field of generative AI evolves at a dazzling pace, a high-performance model that is trained solely with copyright-free image data has emerged. On April 29, Spanish graphics platform Freepik and AI startup Fal.ai released a new image generation AI model, 'F Lite'. This model is distributed as open source and was trained solely with 80 million legally and commercially usable images.

F Lite comes in two versions: 'Regular' and 'Textured'. Regular is suitable for users who value predictable results and faithful output to prompts, while Textured offers better textures and creative compositions, but is more prone to errors. Both versions can be experienced through the Hugging Face and Fal platforms, and the code and model weights are also open source, allowing the community to freely utilize and modify them.

However, F Lite also has the following limitations: it has limitations in expressing extremely realistic textures, errors may occur in expressing complex scenes or human body structures, and it has low sensitivity to short prompts. The accuracy of text expression in images is also still inadequate.

Freepik is the first open image model developed with legal and safe data, although it may not have the most advanced features. It is designed so that developers can develop and customize styles and features in the future, he explained.

Currently, the F Lite can only be powered by high-end GPUs requiring at least 24GB of VRAM, but a smaller version is also in development to make it accessible to more users in the future.

More and Sources

• https://www.freepik.com/blog/f-lite-freepik-and-fal-ai-unveil-open-source-image-model-trained-on-licensed-data/