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Immich Is Now Stable!
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2025
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The presentation is quite funny, I wonder wha-
Welp. I'm out.
I know we all hate AI, but we're actually angry at generative LLMs. The kind of "AI" that Immich uses is a classifier and is absolutely not the same as ChatGPT.
They should have made this clear in their video.
Their usage is basically just the same old machine learning that's existed for ages, long before the genAI bubble started. They really should avoid the buzzword for accuracy's sake but it's far removed from all the LLM generative dogshit.
This is an excellent clarification, thanks.
Fuck LLMs, though.
That was my understanding, that Immich and PaperlessNGX run AI locally on your machine. That's why the server PC sounds like a fighter jet ready to take off for hours on end when a large library is first added.
Not everybody.
(Read the room, dude!)
Not trying to be confrontational in the least. but I am fully aware and autonomous. I thought you guys weren't down with group think?
The AI is just image and object recognition and tagging. It’s very powerful (even runs on CPU in docker) and useful. No LLMs here.
It's classification AI not generative AI. Basically smart tagging. And it's optional. Super helpful though and runs locally on your machine.
Okay, you're missing out on one of the best new self hosted services because of a knee jerk reaction in that case.
Futo's CEO being a alt right piece of shit is a better reason.
To my knowledge the Immich devs arent, but yeah.
I didn't down vote ya but, I am quite certain that if we knew all the little idiosyncrasies, personal core values, or private lives of both open source and closed source software devs, teams, sponsors, equipment manufacturers, components, et al, we'd probably never turn on our computers. I mean, I get it, you are free to make choices. I wouldn't have it any other way. However, until the dev teams start writing that into their software, I'm ok with them being an alt right piece of shit. It's kind of like, I enjoy Ted Nugent's music. It comes up in my playlist every so often. I can't stand his political stance, but I am able to separate the two without condoning his political core beliefs. Gosh, if I were to listen to only those artists that align with my core beliefs, it'd be a mighty slim playlist. ymmv
Is there any other info on this besides drew devault's blog post?
It has links in it. I'd recommend starting with them.
Here is grapheneOS talking about how Futo fucked them over, from the article as an example:
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113443396794247106
It is actually really useful
You can search mountains and have mountains show up
Didn’t work for me. I don’t have any pictures of mountains, though.
You should get some, they are rad
Lol then try to search for something you have
What if I don't have anything?
In that case, search nothing and everything you have will come up.
Immich's use of AI is arguably one of the most suitable cases for the technology and it runs entirely on your own device. I get the hate for AI but this ain't it
Look I hate AI as much as the next guy and I have it enabled in my Immich instance. It's been really handy.
People need to learn the different between (AI) LLM and the AI workhorses known as Machine Learning that have been doing the real heavy lifting for decades.
It's for image recognition. Nothing sad about it. Great feature.