this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
201 points (95.5% liked)

Privacy

32465 readers
678 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Shows all the information Google gets from just one photograph, using Ai.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Best part? The description supplied here is probably a limited version of all the information that Google infers from each of your photographs. It would make sense to ask for a short 3 paragraph summary of key observations to fit within API limits. On Google's end? No reason for such limits to exist. So they infer even more from your data than this website can show. And they run this kind of compute on everything you give them.

They "claim" that they don't sell or share this data. Do you trust them?

You might say you have nothing to hide, but you also don't get to control the shifting definitions of what's acceptable. Today you're fine. Tomorrow you're labeled a political dissident because of the evidence of Wrongthink that Google happily supplied to the government without your knowledge. Especially in light of the incoming administration, this is an important discussion to have.

Here is a list of FOSS Google Photos alternatives. Immich looks particularly good to me.

[โ€“] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago

Immich looks particularly good to me.

It is! Been running it for a few years now and I love it.

The local ML and face detection are awesome, and not too resource intensive


i think it took less than a day to go through maybe 20k+ photos and 1k+ videos, and that was on an N100 NUC (16GB).

Works seamlessly across my iPhone, my android, and desktop.

load more comments (1 replies)