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mac-monet | 7 months ago

A bit off-topic, but the point on duplicate detection reminded me of a thought I've had while taking photos on trips, in a swarm of other people doing the same. I've always wondered how much of the ICloud's storage is taken up by duplicate photos across everyone's phones. How many petabyte would this be? Imagine swapping one person out for another, in the same exact location in an image. How many then?

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theshrike79|7 months ago

Apple tried this, but The Internet got mad again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584856

nottorp|7 months ago

And for good reason, since this way you'd be poking your nose into other people's photo collection...

It's easy to imagine merging photos of people in the same scenic spot, but how about the photos of those people in the same hotel room bed doing whatever? :)