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> Terrible search without AI is a bit of a stretch.

How so? I was looking for a photo of a grave I took some years ago. In Google photos I just searched for "grave" and if found 2 photos, including the one I wanted.

Without AI I would have to search all my photos. Maybe I could narrow it down by date and location but it would take a lot longer.

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I've been playing with LLama 3.2 Vision 8B for such a use-case, and found it does a good job at providing image descriptions which could be indexed, along with transcription of any text in the image, such as the name on the grave in this case.

So should be possible to have a similar capability locally now.

> LLama 3.2 Vision 8B

Brainfart, that should of course be LLama 3.2 Vision 11B. Keep mixing up the model sizes.

I have 100s of grave photos. Browsing by location would be way simpler

Same, albums/rough location + time is more than enough for me with 20 years worth of photos... It is far from terrible.

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