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

submitted 3 days ago by steel_for_humans@piefed.social to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

Kinda creepy. I was about to migrate to Immich, fortunately I'm not in the US, so I don't get that update yet. It does seem like a lost battle, anyway :( Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.

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[-] slowmolaggins@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 days ago

Save your photos elsewhere, start replacing photo subjects with ballsacks and buttholes. Allow Google to train its ai like normal.

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