Upload your photo and get a thorough, three-paragraph description of it.

Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020 he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. He feared that his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project. “I don’t control any of the future outcomes that this will enable,” Mohandas thought. “So now, shouldn’t I be more responsible?”

The site (TheySeeYourPhotos) returns what Google Vision is able to decern from photos. You can test with any image you want or there are some sample images available.

  • BlxterEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Immich if you self host as others have mentioned but since this is the article shared and you don’t want to host it https://ente.io/ is what is talked about in the article

    Something “more private, wholesome, and trustworthy,” he says. The paid service he designed, Ente, is profitable and says it has more than 100,000 users, many of whom are already part of the privacy-obsessed crowd. But Mohandas struggled to articulate to wider audiences why they should reconsider relying on Google Photos, despite all the conveniences it offers.

    I have 0 experience with ente btw

      • The HobbyistEnglish
        2·
        24 hours ago

        This would make sense as the ente server doesn’t do much given all the photos are encrypted. All the intelligence is in the client apps.

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          It seemed like half the times I opened it on my phone it wouldn’t load because the app version wasn’t compatible with the server version and half the time I updated the server it had breaking changes that needed to be addressed.

          Just my experience.

          • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
            1·
            21 hours ago

            The number of breaking changes has really gone down. I don’t think I’ve touched the config in a year. I don’t have it auto update though, just in case.

      • BlxterEnglish
        1·
        23 hours ago

        Didn’t know that interesting I wonder how there features compare to immich

        • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          The ML categorization of images was added more recently than it was in immich and the updates are less frequent, but I like that when I open the app on my phone I can expect it to work instead of complaining that the server and app versions don’t match and are incompatible.