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AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)
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After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've actually tried to do that with pictures/art, but none of the tools I have to do so make it easy. The Windows photo viewer from Windows XP, which I can't seem to get anymore, was actually pretty okay at it.

But the truth is that even then it required more effort than I was willing to put in, and I was never able to anticipate every tag I would eventually want. If I didn't feel like tagging something the moment I saved it, it generally never got tagged.

At this point an AI to do it would be amazing. I have thousands and thousands of pieces of potential character art, but when I want something with specific features it's not easy to find.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don't blame you. Even in a professional setting tagging is mind numbing and tedious. The only difference is without tagging you might miss an image that can be licensed and the business opportunity that needed it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You should still be able to use the photo viewer:

https://winaero.com/how-to-enable-windows-photo-viewer-in-windows-11/amp/

(Unless I misunderstood and there was a photo organization tool in XP that I forgot about)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The one that can still be enabled is still not the original version that had the tools I'm thinking of; I've tried several guides to re-enable it and it does give me an older photo viewer, but never quite the one I had back in XP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Windows is fairly good at running old EXEs. Trying spinning up an XP vm and just yanking the old photo viewer.