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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 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

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