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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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[–] 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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

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  • [–] 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    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

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