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.

  • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de
    27·
    2 days ago

    The problem is that people don’t care. They know how much invasive Google’s services are, but they still keep using them due to the “convenience factor”.

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
      19·
      2 days ago

      Man, I setup Immich for my whole family, a RAID6 of enterprise drives with about 10TB total available storage, and 1TB/user. I’ve got symmetrical 1Gbs fiber, too. Does anyone use it? No. The last get together I told them if anyone wanted help setting it up, I wouldn’t mind. And no takers really. I said it’s easy enough anymore with a 1TB SSD being <$100 it’d last a very long time they could back up too that, far more than Google allows… Nope…

      It’s insane to me that nobody wants to change, but when these companies change on everyone, they just let it happen.

      • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
        8·
        2 days ago

        It’s also that the existing software like the photo apps or pre installed sync apps doesn’t help either. Eg. In android it’s all automatically synced to Google drive etc. You really need to turn it all off, either later or during the first mobile setup. Those big companies make it difficult on purpose to switch to alternatives, while by default enabling their own vendor lock in software. Same for iOS. Same for MacOS and same for Microsoft Windows.

        If we truly want to change the world, we need to fix the root cause. And make a better alternative to android and iOS…

      • airikr@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        People are habits animals and some people are more habits animals than others.

    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
      11·
      2 days ago

      The thought of having to transfer gigabytes worth of photos and videos is legitimately daunting. That’s enough to stop most daily users, and Google is banking on that.

    • FatVegan@leminal.space
      12·
      2 days ago

      You could tell people that they could get rid of google and their invasive strategies by following a link and they would be like: oof, no thank you.

      But in reality it takes some work.