Shows all the information Google gets from just one photograph, using Ai.
Best part? The description supplied here is probably a limited version of all the information that Google infers from each of your photographs. It would make sense to ask for a short 3 paragraph summary of key observations to fit within API limits. On Google’s end? No reason for such limits to exist. So they infer even more from your data than this website can show. And they run this kind of compute on everything you give them.
They “claim” that they don’t sell or share this data. Do you trust them?
You might say you have nothing to hide, but you also don’t get to control the shifting definitions of what’s acceptable. Today you’re fine. Tomorrow you’re labeled a political dissident because of the evidence of Wrongthink that Google happily supplied to the government without your knowledge. Especially in light of the incoming administration, this is an important discussion to have.
Here is a list of FOSS Google Photos alternatives. Immich looks particularly good to me.
Immich looks particularly good to me.
It is! Been running it for a few years now and I love it.
The local ML and face detection are awesome, and not too resource intensive — i think it took less than a day to go through maybe 20k+ photos and 1k+ videos, and that was on an N100 NUC (16GB).
Works seamlessly across my iPhone, my android, and desktop.
can someone explain what this website whats to proof? Why would I upload my private images to some website? would that be as stupid as using google photo in the first place?
Obviously, don’t upload any photos to the demo site that you wouldn’t want shared. That’s pretty basic internet 101. The point is to demonstrate the amount and types of information Google infers from its users’ data. So feed it a pic you don’t care about, or try with the supplied images.
I got an unimpressive, repetitive description of the photo I tested. While it was detailed and accurate, there was nothing revealing about it.
So it’s an llm description of the photo? And a printout of the exif data? I’m not sure what this is trying to prove
It’s a bit of a parlor trick with one photo but ML/LLM are about quantity. Imagine this kind of classification, data collection on all 100k of your photos. Now it’s calculating that you redid your kitchen in 2020. You had a Toyota but now you drive a Mercedes. You prefer cats to dogs. You typically wear [insert three colors] tshirts and always wear jeans.
All it needs is more and more datas to start to be obvious.
