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PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by McDyver »

mcny wrote: post #37

Am I the only one who is amazed by this technology? > Please don't upload photos containing offensive content. Uploads that may contain such images will be rejected automatically. > Non-photographic and low-quality images require a review before they appear in search results. How does it know what is "offensive"? Is this configurable? I don't want to upload photos of people (for obvious reasons) but other than that,…

IMO offense is taken, not given.

In cases like this the "burden" should be on the party choosing the content they want to see.

Everyone should be able to upload a photo of ice on the sidewalk, but the other users should define that ice or sidewalks are offensive to them.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

janfoeh wrote: post #43

It looks interesting; I might be in their target group. But after ten minutes of browsing around, I still have some open questions regarding privacy. What would I have to do to have an absolutely, unequivocally local-only install? Can I even do that? Which features would I need to disable? Especially anything related to AI and classification raises red flags in that regard. While it is apparent that they've given a l…

Yep. I like the design. I like the little globe that shows where your pictures come from. It is all neat. I actually would pay money for it, because right now I just watch pics/vids from trips manually. I would not want to install another data hoover ( especially of something as intimate as my family pictures ) unless I could be relatively certain data stays where it is.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by Ruthalas »

xienze wrote: post #40
kunwon1 wrote: post #38

I deployed this recently and added a bunch of pictures to it. PhotoPrism prominently features an AI-generated (?) 'description' on each photo, but for 98% of my photos, it was unable to come up with any description. The install procedure is needlessly complicated, there's no good reason for an app like this to require docker. Overall, I was underwhelmed

It did the same for me, and (at least when I looked at it) there was no way to just manually tag photos/identify subjects.

You can manually tag photos and identify people, though the UI flow is not the most convenient. (I've been trying it put for a couple months.)

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by jdthedisciple »

mcny wrote: post #37

Am I the only one who is amazed by this technology? > Please don't upload photos containing offensive content. Uploads that may contain such images will be rejected automatically. > Non-photographic and low-quality images require a review before they appear in search results. How does it know what is "offensive"? Is this configurable? I don't want to upload photos of people (for obvious reasons) but other than that,…

That's strange.

Why do private photos need to be reviewed?

What am I missing? Is everyone just okay with giving up their privacy?

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by ruph123 »

infinitezest wrote: post #6

This is a similar project but fully open source (and probably less mature). The lead dev is very active and responsive. https://immich.app/

Having used both I can say that PhotoPrism runs MUCH more stable and surprisingly smooth. Immich constantly breaks.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by vorpalhex »

janfoeh wrote: post #43

It looks interesting; I might be in their target group. But after ten minutes of browsing around, I still have some open questions regarding privacy. What would I have to do to have an absolutely, unequivocally local-only install? Can I even do that? Which features would I need to disable? Especially anything related to AI and classification raises red flags in that regard. While it is apparent that they've given a l…

AI recognition is local. You can totally disable external access and it will run fine (obviously assuming your photo storage is local).

Their recognition model is loose. It works and it works well enough for what this is to be useful but it's just a quick classifier. It will absolutely have misses.

You can optionally aadd in a coral dev board to save yourself some cpu load but I've never found it necessary.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by duncan_idaho »

nullcipher wrote: post #50
hn92726819 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I generally don't either, but I wonder: are you more comfortable with running a docker image without internet access? You can firewall your host so the container can't access it and assign an internal network to the container.

Well, I don't want to run untrusted apps for a start. I am not that desperate :)

Just read all the source code

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by vorpalhex »

A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #52
janfoeh wrote: post #43

It looks interesting; I might be in their target group. But after ten minutes of browsing around, I still have some open questions regarding privacy. What would I have to do to have an absolutely, unequivocally local-only install? Can I even do that? Which features would I need to disable? Especially anything related to AI and classification raises red flags in that regard. While it is apparent that they've given a l…

Yep. I like the design. I like the little globe that shows where your pictures come from. It is all neat. I actually would pay money for it, because right now I just watch pics/vids from trips manually. I would not want to install another data hoover ( especially of something as intimate as my family pictures ) unless I could be relatively certain data stays where it is.

Do a docker install and disable outbound internet access on it.

Re: PhotoPrism: AI-powered photos app for the decentralized web

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Post by laxis96 »

nullcipher wrote: post #50
hn92726819 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I generally don't either, but I wonder: are you more comfortable with running a docker image without internet access? You can firewall your host so the container can't access it and assign an internal network to the container.

Well, I don't want to run untrusted apps for a start. I am not that desperate :)

Genuine question: what do you consider "trusted" code/apps? What difference is there between compiling from source and using the prebuilt official Docker image?
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