About using Gemini to label digitized family home videos instead of doing it by hand.
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About using Gemini to label digitized family home videos instead of doing it by hand.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Ah I understand you now. Yes I could have had a service do the digitizing then only done delivery myself. And given the time investment that probably would have been more sound. I don't think I'd do it all myself if I did it again.
I didn't know Gemini models were that capable. I admit I'm still skeptical about this approach though - even if it were capable of accurately labeling people and locations across decades, there's no way it could know when a scene is of personal interest. I kept a running log for each sibling as I was manually doing the labeling, knowing what they'd want to see, which presumably is only possible for me and my siblings to do with any accuracy.
If AI could ever do that then we've definitely hit ASI!