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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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[-] Danny220@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

from what I understood, you have to opt in. so by default, Gemini will not have access to your gallery. It's just matter of time tho when will Google force this upon it's users imo

[-] Mwa 3 points 1 week ago

ok thanks

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