[temac]

Probably when writing "hate AI" here the meaning was hate the often useless text chat bot. Google Photo face recognition was there before the new hipe and is probably not designated talked by primarily as "AI" by the general public.

[YeahThisIsMe]

People also like privacy, and most of the time "AI" means "your stuff is going to our servers".

I don't need or want that from most applications, especially a photo viewer.

[benterix]

> most of the time "AI" means "your stuff is going to our servers".

It almost always does but only because it is offered this way, it is not a hard technical requirement. There is nothing that would prevent offering a standalone version running locally for customers with their hardware powerful enough.

[xboxnolifes]

Most everyone I know in real life do not care about that kind of privacy. They happily upload anything to anywhere on the internet. The people who do care tend to fall in one of two categories: More tech inclined (programmers), or the same kind of person who doesn't use online banking because they are afraid of losing their money.

[paulmd]

Yes, but it is. It’s a well-known problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

Again, you’ve gotta remember that originally, playing chess was considered an unfathomable expression of machine thinking. Now it’s a problem trivially solved in CS112 class.

It’s a lot less magic when you see behind the curtain.