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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)

submitted 12 hours ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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 3 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 48 minutes 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.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 53 minutes ago

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