Post #1620613
2026-04-22 19:49 UTC
I have found PictureThis to be surprisingly accurate, even for just the tiniest shoots or a tree off in the distance. And it's perfectly usable for free once you close the subscription screen.
I have no idea what powers their identification. It must be some kind of machine learning because I can't imagine any other kind of image recognition data set being big and labeled enough.
Edit: it doesn't say on the app page but their social media accounts are all named PictureThisAI so I guess it is AI
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@sobchak@programming.dev 2026-04-22 20:27
Yeah, it's likely a more "traditional" image classification model (convnet or vision-transformer, not generative AI).