What is dystopic about that, nlp based search is pretty cool. Only problem is that is definitely seems to have fucked certain types of search

I mean, in general I want some kind of photo indexer to be able to find photos this way. But only on my own device(s) without having to make all this private information available for anyone else.

All these cloud providers collected massive amounts of private files and are now able to use them however they (or a dictator of choice) please.