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Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Post by surfingdino »

PStamatiou wrote: post #12

What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it. Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. No…

Managers on AI projects need to show "mass adoption" in order to survive the next annual review. That's why you have pointless AI stuffed into every orifice of Google/YouTube.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Post by plorg »

elcapitan wrote: post #99
nick49488171 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The crop interface got way worse in the latest update (the "comic sans" update) as well.

What's the comic sans update?

I think it's Android 16 QPR1 (the September update), it changed the font on a bunch of UI text to something rounded and perhaps cartoonish.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

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Post by 63stack »

into_ruin wrote: post #9
barbazoo wrote: post #5

Not affiliated, but Immich ( https://immich.app/ ) is a great self-hosted alternative to Google Photos.

I really tried my best with Immich, but because I didn't want to open a port on my home firewall it made syncing kind of a pain. I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.

Oh my god, the syncing requires opening a port??? The amount of hoops these applications require us to jump through nowadays

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#104

Post by nick49488171 »

elcapitan wrote: post #99
nick49488171 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The crop interface got way worse in the latest update (the "comic sans" update) as well.

What's the comic sans update?

The latest android update where they made all the fonts cartoony, added weird decorations to the volume slider, and messed with the camera edit menus.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#105

Post by the_gipsy »

viraptor wrote: post #64
the_gipsy wrote: post #35

Just yesterday I wanted to simply take the first frame of one of those stupid "motion" photos (that someone else took, but could have happened to me given the weekly UI churn). I tried really hard, but it's just not possible. What I did find was many, many different buttons and icons that start some kind of AI magic enhancement crap.

Pull up, tap on "shots in this photo", scrub to the left, tap on "save copy". It seems fairly straightforward to me.

Thank you!

But I would never have guessed in my life that there is a "pull up" gesture there.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#106

Post by plorg »

nick49488171 wrote: post #96
plorg wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest function I'm missing is the keystone transformation, but magic eraser is now a cloud-only function that is much worse, they have rearranged the controls so in a way that separated some of the color corrections, and the resize edit handles for the functions that are still available are now rounded in a way that makes it much less clear what you are doing.

The crop interface got way worse in the latest update (the "comic sans" update) as well.

Yeah, I don't understand how that update got pushed by anyone who actually used the product. Like, they broke some of the most used functions.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#107

Post by jcul »

walthamstow wrote: post #15
into_ruin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really tried my best with Immich, but because I didn't want to open a port on my home firewall it made syncing kind of a pain. I ended up going with Ente and have been pretty happy with it.

Tailscale solves the open port thing for me

Tailscale works great, but it's annoying to have to have an always on VPN on android for it. I need to switch tailscale off if I need to switch to another VPN.

Also when I have it on my private DNS stops working, which to be fair I haven't put a huge amount of effort into solving yet.

I love it for things like ssh to a server at home, but for things like hosting a service I prefer something like cloudflare tunnel or a self hosted reverse proxy. Though tailscale funnel looks promising.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#108

Post by gyomu »

netsharc wrote: post #2

- Enhance 34 to 36. - Pan right and pull back. Stop. - Enhance 34 to 46. - Pull back. Wait a minute. Go right. Stop. - Enhance 57-19. - Track 45 left. Stop. - Enhance 15 to 23. - Give me a hard copy right there.

(this is from the original Blade Runner, for anyone wondering)

I love this being quoted here because while it superficially seems that this interaction is interacting with an AI in a conversational way, it shows tool use that is at the opposite end of what interacting with modern AI tends to be like/what AI marketing wants it to be.

In this scene:

- the user is guiding the tool step by step to a desired outcome, rather than giving a broad vague result that the tool gets to arbitrarily

- the user knows intimately the specific technical capabilities of the tool

- every command is phrased to be unambiguous and lead to a deterministic result

Imagine if instead all of the above, Deckard just gave a broad request, eg “can you help me find who the killer is by analyzing this picture”?

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#109

Post by elcapitan »

nick49488171 wrote: post #104
elcapitan wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's the comic sans update?

The latest android update where they made all the fonts cartoony, added weird decorations to the volume slider, and messed with the camera edit menus.

Oh, I had a suspicion that was what you meant, that's a good name for that annoying change.

Re: Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos

#110

Post by blibble »

PStamatiou wrote: post #12

What is happening on the Photos team? I know a lot of the core team has left already, but lately it really seems like they are cramming in AI functionality in a way that does not consider the whole experience and it truly feels bolted-on. First they tried to mess with regular search and had to leave in a setting for people to go out of their way to disable it. Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. No…

> Google Photos used to be one of my most favorite apps. Now it's some testing playground.

we have entered a new epoch: The Ensloppocene

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