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New website shows you how much Google AI can learn from your photos (arstechnica.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (19 children)

Does anyone have any recommendations for apps to view photos that are not Google?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

You can also self host ente. I've found it to require less maintenance than immich.

[–] bdonvr 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I've had to do very little work on Immich in the 2(?) years I've hosted it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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 1 points 20 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.

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