just curiosity: AI image analysis ?

[Gruhler at netic.de]

Hi,
I'm cautiously interested, so that I really understand what risks I'm 
taking when I set it up (once the tool is there)!

Greetings
Paul

Am 01.04.2025 um 01:26 schrieb Michael Miller:
> Hi everyone,
> I’m Mike, the digiKam developer responsible for the AI in digiKam.
>
> I really like the idea of a pluggable architecture to consume online services for object identification and image classification.  On the digiKam team, we take privacy very seriously which is why we haven’t incorporated many external cloud services into digiKam (Google Maps and online translation being the exceptions).  We believe your data and images are yours, and we don’t want to do anything that could cause a user to unknowingly share their data and images.
>
> Having said, that I think there are ways we could safeguard user data and still allow a mechanism to consume cloud services.  The AI/Machine Learning pipelines in digiKam are easily extended, and we could add a generic pipeline that calls a user configurable command in a shell.  As long as the command returns a value or values back to digiKam in an agreed upon format, the end user could create their own scripts to call cloud services.
>
> Since the user would have to create or install the scripts themselves, I think it fair to assume the user knows the data is being shared with a cloud service.
>
> I’ll talk with Gilles and Maik and get their opinion.  I’m just one person on a talented team of developers, and I’d like to get their thoughts.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike