Google Lens Identification

[Robert Watcher]

* thread went off topic away from my interest in photography

 

[Jerome Marot]

So, basically, this is an app which tells you where on the Internet you can buy things that ressemble what you point your camera at?

 

[Mike (Petrochemist) Kanssen]

I thought it was going to be an app that studied an image & predicted which lens was used to take it. That did seem like a bit of a tall order

 

[Jerome Marot]

I don't really need an application which will tells me things I could buy and get a cut of the price in the process. But if I need to identify plants, I use the flora incognita app. Benefits without the curses. Unfortunately for you, it is specialized in European plants but maybe some local university has a similar program?

 

[Asher Kelman]

I don't really need an application which will tells me things I could buy and get a cut of the price in the process.….

Jérôme,

This comes at a particularly apt time. Today Elon Musk succeeds in owning and privately controlling Twitter, a social media giant that had a massive role in Trump’s rallying of his right-wing followers to congress to reverse his election loss January 6th 2020.

Now one billionaire alone controls one the most powerful mass media tools in history. There is no assurance of transparency or support of the truth and individual or group rights.

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

I don't think there have ever been any assurance of transparency or support of the truth and individual or group rights (on twitter or anywhere else).

 

[Asher Kelman]

I don't think there have ever been any assurance of transparency or support of the truth and individual or group rights (on twitter or anywhere else).

Sure, Jérôme, but at least there was public evidence of an effort to counter false information and BOTS.

Asher