So that if there’s a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn’t go to and they detected you’re most likely a fan, they’ll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they’ll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven’t been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They’re literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there’s no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child’s beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
It’s not a picture for them to look back on or to share with the kid when they’re older. It’s for social media. It starts as a perfectly nice photo and like an intrusive thought asks "what if you could make it better. "
I would hate to have the only parts of my past edited with things that weren’t there so my parents could impress the neighbors.
The commercial if you’re curious:
STEM lords:
Gommunism authoritarian totalitarian jorjorwell 1984, look at Stalin memory holing people to gaslight the citizenry!Also STEM lords:
Epic bacon bazinga! I can alter memories with my artificial intelligencerinos!
what do you mean you want a divorce? You were smiling in all our pictures together!
And people applaud this. At the same time you’ll be seeing more articles asking why suicide rates have skyrocketed and that young people feel more alienated than ever.
Unrealistic standards of beauty and success that you can project from your phone. My fear is that it’ll be normalized.
I have family with dementia and memory issues and I can’t imagine not being able to have any real pictures to explore memories
It’s likely to become a sort of (deliberate) arms race where social norms will expect enhanced images and anyone who doesn’t use them (or doesn’t use sufficiently expensive bazinga editing) will be socially marginalized.
Internet, phones, computers; all of it. All of it is eventually folded up into a form of social coercion for you to be more of a productive human being. Sure, they serve that purpose; but the direction of that productivity will always remain the same under what we have now.
You can’t even enjoy the beach with your family. You have to sell it on the internet for likes.
Or better yet, get caught on the background of someone else’s bazinga device and have your face plastered somewhere.
It’s become more normalized and somehow more offputting than when everyone you know would add heavy gaussian blur to look… idk younger? Prettier? I honestly don’t get it because the blurred photos look awful to me.
Hides wrinkles and blemishes and warts and unkempt hairs and things like that
The commercials where they show a parent editing their child’s beach picture or whatever are so bleak.
I haven’t had to see those yet, but if that’s what’s being normalized now… this is a new level of bleak bazinga clownishness that I didn’t even know was possible.
A picture is worth 50 words in an LLM prompt.
I intentionally bought a polaroid specifically for memories with my daughter that i could have ready nearly instantly. i still use 35mm on occasion, but that takes a bit more time and set up than a toddler can afford.
I gotta get a film camera. I got some nice prints of all my good cat pics cause it would really suck to lose them cause whatever device shit the bed. Hard copies of stuff are cool and good. I’d like to find something entirely analogue
the Kodak ultra f9 is a decent 35mm point and shoot for like 45 bucks. there’s a few other options around that price point as well.
Death to Meta
I don’t know, as someone who liked using Photoshop to do silly stuff (back when I had access to Photoshop), the idea of making it easy and practical to do on a phone sounds fun. I just don’t want AI to do it to photos I didn’t ask to edit. Stay tf out of my stuff
lol Pixel also has an “Add Me” feature to add people that weren’t there to your photos
As with most things AI: Who the fuck would want that?
Chip manufacturers and cloud services providers lol
Tbh I can easily see a world where this feature gets positive user metrics because of Instagram brained dweebs sharing these photos to make their lives look more exciting
That’s like photoshopping yourself with your crush in a photo. Sure a lot of people do it but like, no.
People in CS-related fields who want to look like they can code but can’t
This will trigger massive outrage when people’s dead kids, parents, pets, etc suddenly appear in photos because the algorithm can’t tell if someone is living or dead.
This already happens sometimes for highlight reels but they’re actually pretty good at predicting when somebody has left your life whether a breakup, death, or friendship ruined
Also the general public/user base does not care at all if it doesn’t happen to them personally lol
Mine is super racist and thinks any Asian man in any of my photos is my girlfriend’s dad. It’s actually hilariously racist
That’s fucked up and also probably a great couple in-joke
It does cause the odd laugh
Can it generate an album of photos of me on Mars? Maybe like as a secret agent? Get the girl, kill the bad guys, save the entire planet?
they can remember it for you wholesale
only use for AI i know is searching for specific features in photos/videos, like immich. searching “castle” for all media with castles in them is pretty convenient
screw gen AI like this tho
Yep and it uses offline, local models (well, assuming you’re the one running the Immich instance)
Immich is amazing.
for sure
Kirk VanHouten: my photos are stored on a cloud? Are yours?
Homer: My photos are stored on a big hard drive with my movies
You can self-host Ente if you need similar functionality to Google/iCloud Photos.
Never used it but looks cool af. I’ve sent my resume in before but they’re not hiring :(
There’s also Immich, which is scheduled to become stable this year, so no more breaking changes with updates. I’ve been hosting it for the last year and it’s still undergoing rapid development, but other than that, it’s been great for me.
Honestly in the past 6 months or so since I started using it there’s been like one or two breaking changes and those were at the start, no breaking changes for many months now.
I’m trying to self host more and more, thanks for this it looks dope as hell.
I need to suck it up and get myself a dedicated server instead of running everything off my wife’s gaming rig lol.
hopefully they add multiple instance support to the frontend because currently the backend url is hardcoded in an env var
nbd to host your own frontend but because the mobile apps are built from the same code you have to sideload a separate mobile app you build yourself if you’re self-hosting. which like i can do that pretty easy but probably a bridge too far for my partner, much less my folks.
they did just open-source the server this spring so hopefully multi-backend support is on their roadmap
Wow. Last Thursday-ism swinging in hard
Whats that?
It’s a philosophy built around the idea that you can’t prove the universe wasn’t built last Thursday. Adding in fake memories could make it harder to reason what our histories are
Ah a very relevant philosophy, as important as “the universe is a simulation”, “we are the dream of an alien” and other onanistic bangers
It’s more of a “proof by absurdity” against Young Earth Creationism. There’s no way of knowing if the universe was created five seconds ago or if the people around you are real with their own seperate thoughts, so it’s better to act as though the universe is not five seconds old and other people are real.
The argument made by YECs is stuff like fossils, evolution, sediment layers, tree rings, etc. are all “false evidence” put there by God to test our faith or by Satan to dissuade people from believing the Bible (depending on who you’re talking to). “Last Thursdayism” is a rejection of this, by using the same argument: “Then how do you know God/Satan didn’t invent the Bible to convince you the universe wasn’t made last Thursday?”
The point is we can only rely on what we can physically experience. Acting as though material evidence is a trick helps no one.
Ah, nice.
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What a twisted “feature”. Ynow they could be working on device local models that categorise your photos making searching for something much easier but i guess thats too useful to do.
I don’t think any phones are close to powerful enough to do that yet are they? Isn’t computer vision really intensive or something
Yeah but surely can’t be much more power hungry than what your post proposes. Unless they’re planning on processing this on cloud compute at the businesses expense which just sounds like a way to burn millions for no good reason.
Also seemingly every single device is adding tensor cores these days so maybe in the future it could actually work locally. One can dream about AI producing at least 1 useful feature
Androids dominate the mobile market and the huge majority of androids are lower end devices. World isn’t just the West
And no big techs photo storage app is profitable by itself. It’s a loss leader, packages type of deal for all these companies. They’re already spending millions for hundreds of current models on every single photo and even video
ios actually does this, i can search for generic terms like “cat” or “panda” to find exclusively images/videos of those animals, but i can also search for a specific person (if their face is visible in the picture i want to search for) and they’re also categorized like that
I’m curious, iPhone might be powerful enough to run the models locally given enough time but do you know if it’s actually that or Apple runs the models on their servers and then sends you back the searchable tags from the models to attach to each respective photos metadata
there are also third party apps that use AI classification, and afaik it’s a local feature exposed by an ios api
oh shit, I’ve never used iOS but this looks cool af https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning/
just put some photos of people doing crimes in their albums and convict
With no other research I have no idea if this is true but the very idea sickens me. I think I will actually get off Google photos. It’s like the one thing I still use it’s so convenient. But I can’t I mustn’t. Let my hate be pure.
This post is the research. I am the primary source
anyone got a an android photo app to recommend that I can replace google photos with?
if you just use it for cloud backup, syncthing?
Fossify gallery
if it’s just to view your photos on your phone whatever was built in should work fine. if you want to backup to somewhere that’s not google’s servers probably a NAS. I have a Synology and it’s photos app is a google photos replacement.
the problem with Google photos for local storage is that it will occasionally badger me about using their backup and it takes two clicks to clear the message.
Doesn’t Yung Chomaky have a photo app?
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At least I’ll be able to pretend that I have a life of my dating profile now.
