> There might be a huge potential for an AI which scrapes your (and my!) data and concludes what I can safely delete, saving the world tons of resources.
replyThinking...
User has 15 pictures of his dead mother, deleting 14.
Saved 20 MB! :)
"I processed the 15 pictures, I can create as many new pictures of your dead mother as you want! Here's a picture of her skydiving with a Red Bull"
replyWhy use AI when duplicate finders have been a thing for decades?
replyFor the pictures, I set up a batch script the one time that used exiftool to read all of my photo's exif data (for creation date), rename the file to that date / time, and put it in a year/month folder structure. Once that's normalized it was pretty straightforward to identify and delete duplicates (assuming the exif data on duplicates has the same date/time in it).
You have kids? /s
replyDuplicates are easy, that gets sorted quite fast. Picking 1-2 out of those 5 slightly different pictures of the same occasion is another task.
You know what would be more efficient?
replyShipping your drives to Sam Altman. If everybody did that, he could then deduplicate the pictures of the same thing that multiple people took.