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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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[–] socsa@piefed.social 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The way they are doing it is kind of sketchy though. They are replacing the old search functionality with Gemini and now if you click the search icon in Google photos it immediately pops up asking you to pick your own face. There's no option to skip this step, though you can still revert to the old search for now.

The creepy part is that when they ask you to select your face, it's pretty clear they've already figured it out, because it's the first face they show you.