Get the fuck off big tech photo storage apps if you're still on them for some reason. Coworkers have been discussing gen AI photos in your gallery
So that if there's a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn't go to and they detected you're most likely a fan, they'll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they'll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven't been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They're literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there's no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child's beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
It's not a picture for them to look back on or to share with the kid when they're older. It's for social media. It starts as a perfectly nice photo and like an intrusive thought asks "what if you could make it better. "
I would hate to have the only parts of my past edited with things that weren't there so my parents could impress the neighbors.
And people applaud this. At the same time you’ll be seeing more articles asking why suicide rates have skyrocketed and that young people feel more alienated than ever.
It's likely to become a sort of (deliberate) arms race where social norms will expect enhanced images and anyone who doesn't use them (or doesn't use sufficiently expensive bazinga editing) will be socially marginalized.
It's become more normalized and somehow more offputting than when everyone you know would add heavy gaussian blur to look... idk younger? Prettier? I honestly don't get it because the blurred photos look awful to me.
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child's beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
I haven't had to see those yet, but if that's what's being normalized now... this is a new level of bleak bazinga clownishness that I didn't even know was possible.
I intentionally bought a polaroid specifically for memories with my daughter that i could have ready nearly instantly. i still use 35mm on occasion, but that takes a bit more time and set up than a toddler can afford.
I gotta get a film camera. I got some nice prints of all my good cat pics cause it would really suck to lose them cause whatever device shit the bed. Hard copies of stuff are cool and good. I'd like to find something entirely analogue
I don't know, as someone who liked using Photoshop to do silly stuff (back when I had access to Photoshop), the idea of making it easy and practical to do on a phone sounds fun. I just don't want AI to do it to photos I didn't ask to edit. Stay tf out of my stuff
Tbh I can easily see a world where this feature gets positive user metrics because of Instagram brained dweebs sharing these photos to make their lives look more exciting
This will trigger massive outrage when people's dead kids, parents, pets, etc suddenly appear in photos because the algorithm can't tell if someone is living or dead.
This already happens sometimes for highlight reels but they're actually pretty good at predicting when somebody has left your life whether a breakup, death, or friendship ruined
Also the general public/user base does not care at all if it doesn't happen to them personally lol
only use for AI i know is searching for specific features in photos/videos, like immich. searching "castle" for all media with castles in them is pretty convenient
There's also Immich, which is scheduled to become stable this year, so no more breaking changes with updates. I've been hosting it for the last year and it's still undergoing rapid development, but other than that, it's been great for me.
Honestly in the past 6 months or so since I started using it there's been like one or two breaking changes and those were at the start, no breaking changes for many months now.
hopefully they add multiple instance support to the frontend because currently the backend url is hardcoded in an env var
nbd to host your own frontend but because the mobile apps are built from the same code you have to sideload a separate mobile app you build yourself if you're self-hosting. which like i can do that pretty easy but probably a bridge too far for my partner, much less my folks.
they did just open-source the server this spring so hopefully multi-backend support is on their roadmap
It's a philosophy built around the idea that you can't prove the universe wasn't built last Thursday. Adding in fake memories could make it harder to reason what our histories are
What a twisted "feature". Ynow they could be working on device local models that categorise your photos making searching for something much easier but i guess thats too useful to do.
ios actually does this, i can search for generic terms like "cat" or "panda" to find exclusively images/videos of those animals, but i can also search for a specific person (if their face is visible in the picture i want to search for) and they're also categorized like that
I'm curious, iPhone might be powerful enough to run the models locally given enough time but do you know if it's actually that or Apple runs the models on their servers and then sends you back the searchable tags from the models to attach to each respective photos metadata
Yeah but surely can't be much more power hungry than what your post proposes. Unless they're planning on processing this on cloud compute at the businesses expense which just sounds like a way to burn millions for no good reason.
Also seemingly every single device is adding tensor cores these days so maybe in the future it could actually work locally. One can dream about AI producing at least 1 useful feature
With no other research I have no idea if this is true but the very idea sickens me. I think I will actually get off Google photos. It's like the one thing I still use it's so convenient. But I can't I mustn't. Let my hate be pure.
if it's just to view your photos on your phone whatever was built in should work fine. if you want to backup to somewhere that's not google's servers probably a NAS. I have a Synology and it's photos app is a google photos replacement.
the problem with Google photos for local storage is that it will occasionally badger me about using their backup and it takes two clicks to clear the message.