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.

  • lostoncalantha@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 minutes ago

    GrapheneOS works great for me. Not a lot you can do on stock android that you can’t do on GrapheneOS. I would highly recommend anyone looking for privacy to look into it. Very very easy to install. Just make sure you have a Pixel phone that is unlocked. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for two years now.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    2 hours ago

    Why search for a doctor’s appointment when Google has access to all your calendar events. Why search for a party invite when it reads all your emails. And why search for a specific photo of you and your loved ones to create an image, when it sees all your photos.

    They try very hard to sell this as something positive and not the privacy invasive nightmare it is.

    • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
      6·
      2 hours ago

      Exactly. It’s google. They’re scanning EVERYTHING. Even if you don’t use google, they probably know about you from OTHERS’ devices who are using google.

  • vratajin@piefed.socialEnglish
    17·
    5 hours ago

    That’s a terrible article though and seems quite click-baity, it’s hard to say what’s going on just based on that.
    It also says

    We’re talking Personal Intelligence, Google’s latest AI upgrade path which lets users opt-in to connecting Google apps to Gemini.
    If it’s opt-in, it’s fine, as long as the user knows what exactly they are opting in for.

    • fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 hours 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.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

    If you install immich in your homelab, you can just transfer all the images off your device very easily with the immich app.

    Probably the only way to keep them private from big tech. But the long term solution is to not use the official Android or Apple systems and to root your phone and install cyanogenmod or something similar without Google apps.

    But that means some apps wont work at all, so thats the price to pay for that freedom.

    Or you can just buy a separate camera and stop using your phone for that.

      • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 hour ago

        I’ve had zero problems installing it and exposing it on one of my subdomains via nginx. I thought it was one of the easiest things to install and configure. Like, no errors or unknowns when installing.
        That being said, this isn’t something the average user will be or even should be doing. Its a niche product for the tech literate, not an alternative for what cloud providers are offering. I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.

        • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 minute ago

          I’d not recommend it to anyone who can’t tell the difference between “wifi” and “internet”.

          https://xkcd.com/2501

      • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        1 hour ago

        I can give you a docker compose that will just work if you want, as long as you have a domain name and a ingress controller running. But yes, its not easy.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    6 hours ago

    Voiding my privacy, stealing my IP and opening me up to liabilities…and tis all legal… fuck all of you who gargled their balls and betrayed your own interests for what amounts to digital toys.

  • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    Don’t store your photos on other people’s computers. Store them on your computer.

    Hope this helps.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 hours ago

    This system is being built to coordinate the control of our lives…I feel like I’m watching a slow moving disaster powered by the unparalleled mental prowess of the average American.