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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
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Google confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.

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[–] PM_ME_YOUR_BOOBIES@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's also opt in. Although I'd be surprised if anyone commenting here is actually using google photos in the first place.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's also opt in

For now.

I've been dragging my feet moving to grapheneOS, but shit like this is going to encourage me to make the jump sooner than later

[–] Vetis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Join us, it just works.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Backing up/transferring stuff is my only roadblock

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 days ago

There'll be quite a few of us. I have no idea of the actual demographics or whatever, but a lot of people are here just because they got shafted by reddit one too many times.

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Do we really trust Google's word though? They already use machine learning on your photos to support the search feature