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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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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

What are you saying? I have a samsung and nothing is backed up to google drive. In fact i just checked after reading the article. Is there another place they backup or are you talking about the backup?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago*

    Samsung has their own proprietary Camera app, and its own proprietary Gallery app. The Google issue probably doesn't apply to you, but even though they're better than Google options, you're still locked in too.

    Your mileage may vary depending on the cellphone manufacturer, but everything I've seen (Google or Samsung based) has been locked in and paired on an OS that was once beloved for having interchangeable components.

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