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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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[-] Echolynx@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I went ahead and deleted everything. Ended up being about ~60 GB, since I only ever used standard compressed storage. It was weird going back through all those photos, but at least I can save them locally now.

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