Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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.

  • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    Even when they say it’s optional, it’s never actually optional. They are always enabling it in the background and just preventing you from seeing that.

    But even if they actually did use an opt-in system properly, they would still only do that for like 6 months, and then in the next update you’d be forced to use it. And who can stop them? There is no alternative.

    • br14n@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      No alternative? Immich and Ente are definitely an alternative Google Photos. It ain’t that hard to degoogle these days.

      • cøre@leminal.spaceEnglish
        41·
        6 days ago

        There are services and websites that literally won’t let you change your email, so if you used gmail to sign up, you’re stuck with that email.

        • br14n@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Never had a website or service deny an email change in my 25 years of being on the internet. But you can move all the other stuff to a different email and keep the ones you can’t change on your gmail. Still a better choice than giving all your data to google.

        • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Immich definitely lets you change your email, and even if they didn’t, it’s open source and self-hostable, you could just do it yourself and submit a PR.