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Re: They see your photos

#61

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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.

It wouldn't surprise me if you personally know an individual with some shred of integrity. It's be very surprising if you knew of even one large corporation that did though.

Re: They see your photos

#62

This is just an ad for their photo service. Which presumably has terrible search features, if it doesn't use AI to analyse them. That's one of the best features in Google Photos!

Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch. Also Google does not have a monopoly on object/face recognition in photos. There are self-hosted solutions that readily provide you with that without feeding a faceless AI with your photos while boiling the ocean.

Could you please tell some? I am about to switch to a self-hosted solution.

Re: They see your photos

#63
Reminds me of the article “Language Models Model Us”:

> “On a dataset of human-written essays, we find that gpt-3.5-turbo can accurately infer demographic information about the authors from just the essay text, and suspect it's inferring much more.

> Every time we sit down in front of an LLM like GPT-4, it starts with a blank slate. It knows nothing about who we are, other than what it knows about users in general. But with every word we type, we reveal more about ourselves -- our beliefs, our personality, our education level, even our gender. Just how clearly does the model see us by the end of the conversation, and why should that worry us?“

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dLg7CyeTE4pqbbcnp/language-m...

Re: They see your photos

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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.

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Re: They see your photos

#65

This is just an ad for their photo service. Which presumably has terrible search features, if it doesn't use AI to analyse them. That's one of the best features in Google Photos!

How do you opt out of Google updating your user/advertising profile based on information they glean from your photos?

Re: They see your photos

#67

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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.

Has the capacity to maintain HIPAA compliance maybe, but Google is not a HIPAA covered entity and thus is not subject to any of its rules

Re: They see your photos

#68
Keep in mind, when you use this, you are waiving your right to sue the authors in court: https://theyseeyourphotos.com/legal/terms

> PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE TERMS CONTAIN A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION AND CLASS ACTION/JURY TRIAL WAIVER.

These are common in the US, and consistently upheld in the US. Curiously, Ente did not add the opt-out provision they have in their usual ToS (https://ente.io/terms). I wonder why they made their Terms more restrictive for this specific service only.

Re: They see your photos

#69

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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.

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Re: They see your photos

#70
i gave it a picture of making some meatballs, and it didnt capture the interesting parts.

a) it didnt catch that they were made of ground pork and not beef b) it didnt realize that the inconsistent browning and look of the fat was from butter browing the breadcrumbs and flour c) it didnt realize that the surrounding on the pan was bits of browned meat that fell off while rolling, instead claiming it was garlic or herbs d) it didnt spot that one had fallen apart a little bit e) it didnt get that i took the picture because i thought i rolled them too big f) it made up a counter, when only the cast iron pan was visible

with a different picture, it couldnt figure out what my makeshift Halloween costume was, despite it having been a pretty obvious squid games character.

it seems like it can see whats in the picture mechanically, but it can't see what the picture is of. whats the point of all this ai photo stuff if i cant give it a picture of a cake and have it tell me to turn down my oven a couple degrees next time?

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