Tip of the day:
Read this
https://www.wired.com/story/website-google-ai-photos-ente/
or just go to
https://theyseeyourphotos.com/
Feed it one or two of your photos (ones that don’t reveal anything special)
Recoil in horror at how much Google can learn from your pics
Then turn off backup to their cloud, arrange to back up your pics to some sunny (meaning non-cloud, or at least non-Google) location.
Then wipe your photos from Google’s servers.

I fed it a pic from an old company x-mas party and it identified the restaurant from the scenery visible thru the window. 😨😨😨 And showed it on a map.

Then I showed it this pic and it correctly identified the location and showed it on a map, but got the city wrong in the text description.
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    I have stubbornly refused from backing up my photos to Google cloud since the very beginning. You made me feel very relieved right now. I wish my family listened to me. They just tell me this is now the world, get used to it…

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      THIS. 💯 THIS.

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        Silly me. I originally had it off, but today I double-checked and it had somehow gotten turned on. It’s off now, and all wiped. Google used to often prompt me to turn it on and I must have mis-tapped sometime.

        I’m not sure what’s scarier: that it gets so much right or that it gets other things wrong, like the city above. And in the x-mas party pic it guessed the ethnicity of my co-workers and got 60% wrong. This mix of accuracy-to-give-credibility and errors seems like the worst combination possible.

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          There used to be a lot more things that it would get wrong or would glitch out on, but it’s improved quite a bit in recent years, but in an uncanny and borderline scary way, imho. I’d rather give as little of myself to it that I can, I have nothing of personal saved on my own personal account, and my work account is my work account, which thankfully, is managed by my workplace, so I don’t even wanna put anything more to it other than work

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          Yes the mix, combined with what was written in the article you linked, about assuming beliefs and tendencies, can get very scary.

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    This gave me war flashbacks of my oppa calling me dumb for saving our Disney+ password on Google. He made me get a password manager.

    Anyway, 99% of my pics are screenshots. I bet google could write my End Year Round Up based on them.

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    This is interesting.

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    Thank you for the PSA My Lord. A much needed reminder to take care in the world we live in. As you rightly pointed out the sheer amount of misinformation that can be disseminated is a true horror.

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