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My dad's old photo albums vs. AI tagging apps - what a change
I spent last weekend scanning 200+ old family photos from the 70s and 80s. My dad had wrote little notes on the back of each one like "Aunt Marie's birthday, 1978" and some had no notes at all. Now I use Google Photos and it automatically tags faces and even guesses the year based on the cars and clothes! It took me 2 hours to sort what would have taken weeks back then. Has anyone else used AI to clean up old family archives like this?
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the_zara28d ago
Used to think the handwritten notes were the only real way to preserve memories, but Google Photos totally changed my mind. My uncle left a bunch of slides from the 60s with no labels at all, and the AI picked out my grandma's wedding dress from a grainy shot just by comparing it to her later photos. It flagged a whole set of beach trips from 72 that my dad never even mentioned, all because the cars in the background matched the year.
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troyreed27d agoMost Upvoted
Ha, so the AI is better at family history than your actual family. That's both impressive and kind of insulting if you think about it. Your uncle hoarded all those slides for decades and the robot had to figure out what they were. At least now you can finally put names to those mysterious beach people instead of just assuming they were random strangers your dad photobombed.
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