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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live (www.forbes.com)
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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.

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[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't mean it's difficult to install though.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool, I have a Samsung S23fe, please feel free to install it for me. I'll wait.

Admittedly, being facetious there, but my point is that if it requires a specific device that most people don't have to install, then it is not easy to install for most people, because it literally cannot be.

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My point is if something is impossible to do, that doesn't make it difficult. It makes it impossible. Those are two different things.

[–] qaeta@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

... what exactly do you think the phase "impossibly difficult" means? Because "impossible" is a level of difficulty ie. THEY ARE NOT DIFFERENT THINGS

[–] DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com 1 points 4 minutes ago

Impossibly difficult is an oxymoron. If something is impossible, it can't be difficult because if it is difficult that means its very hard to achieve but still possible. If something is impossible, that means you cannot do it, full stop. It is not possible. Those are two completely different things.