Absolutely not training data no way no sir

Google photos and apple have been doing it for years too, they’re like we found this person 50 times in your photo collection, why don’t you name them?

Apple, afaik, used to be doing this on-device rather than in the cloud. Not quite sure about the situation today.
- thats if u trust them
- Still on device for Samsung, not sure about others https://www.samsung.com/us/account/privacy-policy/#:~:text=Information Stored on Your Device Not Accessible to Samsung
- They were inferencing a cnn on a mobile device? I have no clue but that would be costly battery wise at least.
This is why it's worth the time to set up Immich.

It even has the same kind of AI object and face recognition as in Google Photos, but it's your own cloud setup and self-hosted software, so all of the data is entirely yours and nobody else's. It's downright strange to think of those things as actual features and not privacy violations.
- Yeah it really bothers me that they’re not asking you to compromise only your data, they want you to give them info on your friends/family too (who obviously didn’t agree to the terms and conditions). Thanks for shouting out an alternative.
Amazon asked me to use their photos app to get a $20 gift certificate last week. I uploaded one photo, got the bonus money, deleted the app and used it to help buy a new monitor.

Sometimes these things can be turned into a win.
- So what you are saying is that you gave Amazon access to your device for 20$? Doesn't sound like a good deal to me.

Lmao, so fucking true

It's like tricking a kid into eating their vegetables

Except vegetables are good for you.
- That's just what Big Vegetable wants you to think

Keeping in mind that the "training data" is also the "recognition database"

- OP called out training data specifically, like that was the real problem.

Why did I read it as “Y’all so stupid”?

Tencent isn't the overlord of image generation lmao. This is using people's justified fears of China and surveillance to make a false comparison to image generation. All you're doing is giving more power to companies and states that will abuse it while limiting its use in open source contexts.

How about we just not use people's personal identities for image generation at all?
- How about we just not let any drawings or paintings be made of others at all? I'm all for disallowing things like AI edited porn without consent but you can't arbitrarily apply one set of rules to image generation by computer and another to one done by hand when their outputs are fundamentally the same.
🤱shhhhhhhhhhh drink your milk