Lightroom Classic Facial Recognition

[peterb71837781]

I used Classic instead of the cloud version for the following reason:

I have read that Adobe retains the right to mine private images uploaded to their cloud for use by their AI tools and possibly other purposes.  Since Apple already has all of my personal images on THEIR cloud, i don't see a need to extend access to yet another tech company.  

I expected Lightroom to have a usable facial recognition function, but it DOES NOT.

I've spend 12-18 hours manually retagging a few thousand images of family in Lightroom Classic.  The initial tagging was incorrect most of the time.  Dogs and pieces of furniture "recognized" as specific people, old people recognized as young, men as women, the same IMAGE showing up in different groups.  So, in the end, i had to classify or reclassify most of the images, and finally gave up when i got about 60% of them done.  I think in the future I may upload them to my iPhone cloud and let the iPhone do the image classification, as Apple's facial recognition is great.

Also, i did a lot of tagging, but i believe many of the tags were mis-read by Lightroom, so a surprising large number of images that i thought i had tagged one way ended up in the wrong categories (e.g., a lot of my Dad's pictures ended up in my daughter's category).  

So there are multiple problems with this tool 

There is at least one add-in you can install that supposedly adds facial recognition capabilitiy to LR Classic.  It costs $200+.  I forget the product, but I'm not inclined to throw good money after bad.  

[Moved from Lightroom ecosystem forum to Lightroom Classic forum by moderator]

[peterb71837781]

For clarity, i was using LR to consolidate thousands of old images taken on digital cameras with thousands of newer photos taken on the iPhone.  What i would do if i had to repeat this is upload the old digital camera photos to iCloud and skip Lightroom.  

[johnrellis]

"I have read that Adobe retains the right to mine private images uploaded to their cloud for use by their AI tools and possibly other purposes."

What you read is incorrect. Adobe says:

https://www.adobe.com/products/firefly.html#commercially-safe-creative-ai

"Adobe does not train Firefly on customer content or content mined from the web. We train our models only on content where we have permission or rights to prevent it from creating content that infringes copyright or intellectual property rights."