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.

    • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Like the other comment said, I did a Google takeout of my photos, then used immich-go to transfer them. Was pretty painless, got it done in a few hours, probs less if I was less dummy.

      Here’s the guide I followed.

      • Echolynx@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Thank you! I didn’t realize you could just do a Takeout. I started the process last night and hopefully will be able to transfer them soon. It was completed relatively quickly, so I wonder if it will really have everything…

        • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          My takeout had everything, even random shit I should’ve deleted forever ago lol. I’d just check for the most important pics (weddings, vacations, etc.) that you would actually be devestated to lose. You can always wait a month or so before deleting to verify your media transferred fine.

      • schmalls@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        My problem is that I can’t download the whole takeout before it expires. Or some fail and they only allow so many retries to download.

        • Imaginary_Stand4909@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          3 hours ago

          Really weird, I’ve never had a takeout download limit or issue; does it fail on both .tgz and .zip versions? Maybe try just outright downloading a few batches of pics at a time and then uploading them to Immich.