Using the different AI platforms available to generate texts, photos, videos or programming code is very useful for most people. But in certain cases we are now seeing how these intelligent online services go beyond their initial functions.
Many of you already know first-hand and use a multitude of platforms and applications that Google offers us for free. Now, with the arrival of its AI called Gemini, the search giant seeks to implement it so that it works together with other proprietary solutions. This is precisely the case on which we want to focus in these lines.
First of all, we’ll tell you that Google recently introduced its feature called Ask Photos. Here we’re referring to a new feature based on Gemini Artificial Intelligence for the Photos app that most of you are very familiar with. Basically, this feature allows us to search for some specific personal photos of our own in our account. To do this, a natural conversational language is used instead of using specific keywords as it has been done up to now.
We are telling you all this because we already know some details about the Google Photos Gemini extension. Everything suggests that it would work in a similar way to the aforementioned Ask Photos function. This is something that has been seen in the latest beta of the Google app on Android. Here, evidence of the Google Photos extension in Gemini was discovered, where several ways of using it are mentioned.
Basically, this means that by using the aforementioned extension based on natural language through Gemini’s AI, we will be able to locate images in our Google Photos account. Thus, the search giant’s Artificial Intelligence would have direct access to these stored contents, sometimes personal and private.
Gemini AI access to Photos threatens privacy
This suggests that the Google Photos Gemini extension will work very similarly to the Ask Photos feature. Note that this is a feature that is currently only available to select US users on a trial basis.
In any case, it is very likely that most users will not be convinced that Google’s AI, by default, has access to their photographic content on the online service. We do not know how much data collection from this platform could be carried out by Google by default. It is true that its usefulness is enormous, but at what price.
Google’s Gemini AI platform can now access our Gmail email, as well as other applications from the same company. In this way, it will soon have access to Google Photos and all the content we have stored here, which for many will not be the best idea. Everything will depend largely on the types of photos we have stored on this platform. But for many it will be an attack on their privacy, that’s for sure.
The Google Photos Gemini extension is not yet available, but the search giant is expected to announce it soon.
