Photo by Iban Lopez Luna on Pexels The 14,000-photo problem nobody wants to deal with Somewhere on your phone right now is a number you don't want to look at. Ten thousand photos. Fourteen thousand. Some of you are sitting on more than that, and a good chunk of it is screenshots of memes you'll never open again, seventeen nearly identical shots of the same sunset, and seven attempts at a group photo where somebody always blinked. Nobody sits down and manually deletes their way out of that. It's too many decisions, and decision fatigue sets in around photo number 40. So a wave of AI-powered culling tools — Google Photos' cleanup suggestions, Apple's "Clean Up" feature in Photos, and a handful of third-party apps that use on-device machine learning to sort your library — have shown up promising to do the sorting for you. I've written before about the tab hoarding problem, and camera rolls have basically the same shape: an accumulation problem th...
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