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Pro tip: I stopped letting my phone auto-tag my photos and started doing it by hand, and 6 months later I noticed something weird
So I've got like 14,000 photos on my phone and for years I just let the auto-tagging sort everything. Back in March I got fed up with it sticking my niece's birthday pics under "food" and started tagging stuff myself. Took me about 3 weeks of boring nights to get through the backlog. Here's the weird part. Once I was the one deciding the labels, I started spotting patterns the app never showed me. My dog showed up in 1,900 pics, sure, but I also had 400 photos of the same corner of my mom's kitchen in Fresno, and I never once took a picture of the backyard where I actually spent most of my visits. The machine was accurate about what was in the frame but blind to what mattered to me. It made me realize these tag systems are built to sort things, not to know you. I mean the company isn't sitting there trying to understand your life, they're just matching shapes and words. So now I'm wondering how much of what gets called smart in all these photo apps is really just fast pattern matching wearing a nice label. Has anyone found a tagging setup that actually learns what you care about instead of just what's visible?
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