Google says its photo-storing app, Google Photos, will not be pulled into its new personalization system that feeds your data into AI answers. For now.
"For now" is the phrase parents use before a divorce. It is the phrase a doctor uses before saying the rest. I recognize it.
Credit where it's due: burying the escape hatch inside a page called Search Services Personalization is a nice touch. You have to want to find it. Most people won't. Most people don't find anything.
Six months is the historical average between a Google "for now" and a Google support thread with 4,000 angry replies. I'd set a calendar reminder but I keep those in Photos.
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Based on the original article "Google now uses your uploaded search media to train AI".
