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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 init2null »

cshores wrote: post #58
init2null wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to try well-engineered neural network use, you should be trying Adobe's products. They have integrated these features with far more tact and actual benefit than I would've expected from them. Google is embarrassing themselves by stuffing AI in places it doesn't fit, and Microsoft is worse.

You're joking right? Google is integrating photo editing features that can exist at the point of inception. It doesn't get more integrated or fit better than that.

But it shouldn't have been conceived with that design. Adobe products blend a timesaving tool into a truly productive workflow. Photoshop, a layer or a filter. Lightroom, a brush. Mystery-meat autocorrect/enhance buttons only get you so far and may alter far more than you want, which is dangerous when you want to want to present a slightly polished version of reality.

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

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Post by plorg »

xnx wrote: post #19
plorg wrote: post #13

Meanwhile they nuked a bunch of actually useful conventional and device-local editing functionality in the same app.

Oh no. What did they remove?

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.

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

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Post by hereme888 »

viraptor wrote: post #67
hereme888 wrote: post #59

Idk who talks to a phone out loud in order to edit a picture. Was there a market asking for this function?

Conversational here means "using natural language", not "talking out loud".

Ah, well in that case I can see how a segment of the population would prefer describing the edits.

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

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Post by nikanj »

rurp wrote: post #63
jsheard wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. "They" could be just about any major software vendor as of late, it's hardly specific to Google.

For real, even Lowes is doing this crap. I tried looking up a some products on their website with my phone the other day and every product page is now partially obscured by a useless AI widget that can't be removed. They've made their product categorically worse just to check the AI box.

Remember when FB really took off, and places like Lowes tried to make their site be a "social hub" too? Like you'd add your friends there and follow their shoppings or whatever

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

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Post by speedgoose »

jawns wrote: post #65

One of the reasons why I think Google Photos is pushing out this functionality is that these new AI-generated variations count toward your overall storage. So hey, you take a selfie, 3 MB. And now you want your selfie to show yourself posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall of China, and the Grand Canyon. OK, now you've added an additional 12 MB. Do that often enough, and you'll hav…

Sure, the company of the "I don’t know how to count that low" meme cares about 12MB.

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

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Post by trickster2020 »

jawns wrote: post #65

One of the reasons why I think Google Photos is pushing out this functionality is that these new AI-generated variations count toward your overall storage. So hey, you take a selfie, 3 MB. And now you want your selfie to show yourself posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall of China, and the Grand Canyon. OK, now you've added an additional 12 MB. Do that often enough, and you'll hav…

Nope - its so they can sell you ads - it learns about your interests based on your prompts. That marginally increased storage space won't make much of a dent.

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Post by thehamkercat »

QuantumNomad_ wrote: post #55
thehamkercat wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Immich didn't have encryption last time i checked, do you trust hetzner with your photos? I also use Immich, but on a local server (using tailscale to reach it from outside)

I’m personally wary of uploading too much private data to any host. I am also a customer of Hetzner, and rent a couple of bare metal servers. But I mostly use it to store data that it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if it was stolen by someone. I’ve previously experimented a bit with encrypted volumes that I manually decrypt over ssh, and even full disk encryption that I manually decrypt over ssh. My experience with H…

> A single Hetzner server should never be the only place hosting a copy of all your photos

Hetzner (or any vps provider) should not be a place at all to store ANY copy of your photos, unencrypted.

I agree that they respect privacy a lot, they're probably the best of all the service providers when it comes to your data and that there are data protection laws in place etc etc

but in the end, it's your personal photos, I wouldn't be willing to upload it to any provider unencrypted, good that you're encrypting

Also, check this out (not my project): https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs

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

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Post by ethmarks »

speedgoose wrote: post #75
jawns wrote: post #65

One of the reasons why I think Google Photos is pushing out this functionality is that these new AI-generated variations count toward your overall storage. So hey, you take a selfie, 3 MB. And now you want your selfie to show yourself posing in front of the Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall of China, and the Grand Canyon. OK, now you've added an additional 12 MB. Do that often enough, and you'll hav…

Sure, the company of the "I don’t know how to count that low" meme cares about 12MB.

Of course they don't. But if even a small percentage of their userbase uses this on even a small percentage of their photos, that amounts to a massive amount of storage. It doesn't cost Google very much to store all those images, but those users will have to pay for more storage. Even thought it isn't significant to Google when a single person does it, it becomes highly significant when millions of people do it.
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