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

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

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Kinda creepy. I was about to migrate to Immich, fortunately I’m not in the US, so I don’t get that update yet. It does seem like a lost battle, anyway :( Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.

  • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Even if I migrate to a privacy-respecting FOSS solution, my friends, family, acquaintances and random people around me will not (well, some may). I will still be featured in their photos out of my control.

    Ayup. That is the infurating thing. I can be careful. But ppl around me are not. Of course you u/l your pictures to big-tech! Everybody does!

    TBH, I wanted to volunteer on a local crew that maintains hiking trails. I didn’t… because they were all about taking endless pics and u/l it to their FB and maybe IG. So I avoided sth I wanted to do make my city better. But no way could I avoid their need to share everything with big tech.

    • fuzzzerd@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      TBH, I wanted to volunteer on a local crew that maintains hiking trails. I didn’t… because they were all about taking endless pics and u/l it to their FB and maybe IG. So I avoided sth I wanted to do make my city better. But no way could I avoid their need to share everything with big tech.

      Its hard, and this is a common issue. I have to stop and ask what good am I doing by avoiding it? Usually it’s worth the price, because making the real world a better place out weighs most big tech issues.

      At least that’s how intrt to evaluate things, while still minimizing my own footprint where possible.