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Developer builds free, browser-based background remover that never uploads your photos

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A developer named Jeffrey Hamilton has created Cutout, a free AI-powered background removal tool that runs entirely within the user's browser. Unlike services such as Remove.bg, Cutout does not upload images to any server, making it more suitable for personal or sensitive photos. The tool is powered by the @imgly/background-removal library, which uses WebAssembly to run an AI model locally on the user's device. The AI model is approximately 40MB and is downloaded once, after which it is cached by the browser for faster subsequent use. Cutout requires no account registration and carries no subscription fee, and its source code is publicly available on GitHub.

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