Comment by bayindirh

Even KDE's Digikam can run "somewhat expensive" algorithms on your photos without melting your PC and making you wait a year to recognize and label faces.

Even my 10(?) year old iPhone X can do facial recognition and memory extraction on device while charging.

My Sony A7-III can detect faces in real time, and discriminate it from 5 registered faces to do focus prioritization the moment I half-press the shutter.

That thing will take mere minutes on Azure when batched and fed through GPUs.

If my hunch is right, the option will have a "disable AI use for x months" slider and will turn itself on without letting you know. So you can't opt out of it completely, ever.