The AI feature, first introduced at Google's I/O developer conference last year, allows users to search across their collection of digital photos using natural language queries.

Facebook is asking users for access to their phone’s camera roll to automatically suggest AI-edited versions of their photos — including ones that haven’t been uploaded to Facebook yet. The ...

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Google has updated its Ask Photos search feature, addressing its two biggest criticisms. It works faster with Gemini AI now, and it now instantly shows results for single word search queries ...

Facebook users opting to upload their photos for “cloud processing” are inadvertently giving Meta AI access to their entire camera roll, including photos that have not been uploaded to ...

After quietly pausing the rollout of Google Photos’ AI-powered “Ask Photos” search tool, Google is now expanding access once again and making some improvements to the feature.

According to Google the AI was only used for Ask Photos, which meant it should have been quite good at its job. However the quality wasn't quite there, and earlier this month Google "paused" the ...

Meta is prompting users to grant ongoing access to their camera roll photos—including media they haven't specifically uploaded to Facebook—in order to receive AI-edited and curated images and ...

More info. Earlier in the month, Google admitted that its “Ask Photos” search feature within Google Photos was not exactly meeting expectations and they were pausing its rollout.

This isn’t the first time that Facebook has used photos to train its AI. In the past, Facebook relied on images already uploaded to its platform, such as Instagram.

AI-generated media poses serious risks, especially for vulnerable or less tech-savvy users. Vu Thanh Thang, Chief AI Officer at SCS Cybersecurity Corporation, warned that criminals are exploiting AI ...