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To be fair Apple Photos does this. But it does it to your photos not your entire universe.
by cjk2 2y ago
To be fair Apple Photos does this.
But it does it to your photos not your entire universe.
- hu3 2y agoSame for google photos. I searched for "smiling in beach" and it works flawlessly. I recon Microsoft will want to offload this kind of search processing to user machines with the advent in "AI processor computers" we saw recently: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copi...
- mmcnl 2y agoI believe Apple does it completely locally on the device, whereas Google searches in the cloud.
- ethagnawl 2y agoDropbox has also been doing this for years. It's helpful sometimes and other times completely misses the mark. Personally, I do find it to be creepy and it has me edging closer to using a more privacy-focused cloud solution to backup my important documents, photos, etc.
- sleepybrett 2y agospotlight is also indexing pretty much every file you create on your mac.
- acdha 2y agoThere’s a really interesting angle about how the model of the service fits with the user’s concept and consent here. Apple Photos only indexes things you choose to save there, and you have to grant access to other things like Siri using it, and most people seem to be comfortable with that because it’s easy to understand the scope and opt-out. Recall is the opposite: on by default and it records everything, which leaves people uncertain about whether they even can reliably opt-out or what that will mean if they’re interacting with someone who hasn’t, and combines with other areas of Windows 11 where Microsoft has been doing things like putting ads in the start menu which really cut into users’ trust. The blowback has been pretty impressive for what might otherwise have been a relatively ignored feature.