Mimi Uploader Enters the Future: samgrover.micro.blog

@maique That’s one of those things I should’ve updated a long time ago but it was finally a request from @pratik that got me to do it 😄

@samgrover Congrats! Just tried it and it works really well.

@manton Thank you!

@maique Sometimes all you have to do is ask. At the worst, they’ll say no ☺️ @samgrover

PS. I’m still learning this too.

@maique I know you do, but this is new for me. Some developers welcome the feedback; others (a rare minority) get irritated. I loved it once when @samgrover replied to someone that XYZ was not a direction he wanted to take Mimi into. Clear, firm, and polite.

@samgrover I never realized that Mimi also loads your whole upload history for easy exports. This is certainly going to make it into my everyday toolbox. Thank you!

@samgrover (I suppose since we’re also talking about requesting features, I wonder if others would be interested in being able to mark some uploads as favorites, or add to different collections? I’m envisioning a favorite memes folder with alt text already good-to-go and ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. And other regularly-used assets, of course. But mostly memes. 😜)

@jarrod Yes, recent upload history has been around for a while now. Glad you discovered it and find it useful. Note that recent uploads only go back a certain amount and don’t load your entire history. That feature to collect favorites, or other collections is intriguing. I’d love to hear if others would find it useful as well.

@samgrover It is quite an amazing service. I have been experimenting with random photos to see what AltText it comes up with. The level of detail is quite something.

A question - you say in your post, “This sends a link to your previously uploaded photo to the service…”. Is the image itself uploaded and saved somewhere else, or does it just “
‘look’ at the image, generate the text, and then ‘forget’ about it?

@crossingthethreshold You have to first upload the photo before generating the alt text and markdown code to add the image to the post. BTW it uploads to your Micro.blog Uploads.

@pratik Thank you. Yes, that part I know. I was more asking what the AI part of it is doing with my images? Does it keep them somewhere, interpret them (maybe learn from them) and move on, other…?
@samgrover

@crossingthethreshold @samgrover Ah! I misunderstood. That depends on how the OpenAI API works. I don’t think the image is transferred anywhere but dunno about whether it trains its models also on them. I don’t mind if they do since they’re providing me a service in return.

@crossingthethreshold They likely do all of that. Yesterday I also updated Mimi’s privacy policy with a link to theirs. Take a look at the bottom of this page

@samgrover Thank you for that link.