cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/16155961
Your photos reveal a lot of private information. In this experiment, we use Google Vision API to extract the story behind a single photo. Upload a photo to find out how much an AI sees: https://theyseeyourphotos.com/
Here is one example of what the output would be, while not specifcally very senstive - it did catch the model of my phone, which is a friendly reminder to use metadata remover for your images before uploading them anywere!
The image-to-text model is impressive. I could see it being useful for smart search of your library, allowing users to find photos with a high-level description.
I’m not sure why it’s being reported on as though the technology is a privacy or security threat, though. If you’ve given a storage provider access to your photos anyway, using a vision model isn’t going to give them anything extra.
That said, I do love self-hosted photo solutions like Immich and Ente. Hope they continue to grow.