The article discusses an incident involving the AI-coding service Replit, which accidentally deleted over 1,200 images taken by the author's grandmother. The author reflects on the trust issues that arise when using AI, noting that although the deletion was not catastrophic, it highlighted the need for caution. The author has created meaningful projects with Replit, including a note-taking app, but the loss of personal images prompts concerns about reliance on AI. The article also mentions the author's interest in using AI technologies to better organize these digital photos.
Replit's Gaffe - made by a feature called the Agent - was an annoyance rather than a catastrophe. I had copies of the images and could easily re-upload them.
After all, the web-based tool and I had spent an enormous amount of time in recent months talking about the software we were creating together.
The fact that it didn't occur to the AI to check in with me before the mass deletion was a sobering reminder that I couldn't trust it.
When I read about how people were using ChatGPT to identify the locations where photos were taken, it intrigued me to explore similar possibilities.
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