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Re: They see your photos

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This is really cool. I posted a photo of what I think was my great grandparents into it and it explained their circumstances in fascinating ways (to the point of mentioning aged clothing, a detailed I overlooked). I’ve been trying to figure out how to process hundreds of my own scanned photos to determine any context about them. This was convincing enough for me to consider google’s vision API. No way I’d ever trust…

> consider google’s vision API. No way I’d ever trust OpenAI’s apis for this.

lol?

Re: They see your photos

#53

This is really cool. I posted a photo of what I think was my great grandparents into it and it explained their circumstances in fascinating ways (to the point of mentioning aged clothing, a detailed I overlooked). I’ve been trying to figure out how to process hundreds of my own scanned photos to determine any context about them. This was convincing enough for me to consider google’s vision API. No way I’d ever trust…

Where is the difference in trust level between google and openai coming from?

One company has the capacity to maintain HIPAA compliance and the other is best known for vacuuming up the entire web and users prompts. For something as sensitive as family photos, I know which company/product I'd prefer for this potential project.

Re: They see your photos

#55

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Which ones do those things?

Almost* all of them. At the very least its worth hoarding until an opportunity comes up. [*] Reduced from all.

No way. I know a local photographer who has his own printer and store and makes prints and would never sell my prints away.

Re: They see your photos

#56
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It is a weird advertisement when Ente (the name of the service) will also see your photos.

The service is end to end encrypted with local AI for indexing. I tried it a few months ago however and the upload/encryption was so slow from their desktop app it would have taken weeks to migrate my photos to the service.

Apple Photos in iCloud can also be E2E encrypted (though not by default: you have to explicitly enable that), are indexed locally, and Apple's pricing for storage is about half of this service.

Re: They see your photos

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Almost* all of them. At the very least its worth hoarding until an opportunity comes up. [*] Reduced from all.

No way. I know a local photographer who has his own printer and store and makes prints and would never sell my prints away.

I wasn't expecting "mom and pops" to be part of the discussion, but kudos for finding an exception.

Re: They see your photos

#59

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Have you checked the privacy policy of your photo lab/printer? It's possible that they're collecting digital copies of your pictures, selling them (or just information about them) to third parties, as well as selling them/turning them over to the police and other government agencies.

Which ones do those things?

It should be your default assumption that any and all data you hand over to a company will be collected, used by that company in any manner that they feel will be beneficial to them, sold/leaked to others, and ultimately used against you.

At a glace, it appears that the privacy policies of walmart, CVS, and walgreens allow for it. I imagine that's where most people these days take their photos for development and/or printing

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