Google Now Uses Your Uploaded Media to Train AI Models

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Google has updated its privacy settings, allowing it to use uploaded media like images, files, and audio/video recordings to train its AI models.
Users are now opted into this expanded AI training unless they actively choose to opt out.

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Google has updated its privacy settings, allowing it to use uploaded media like images, files, and audio/video recordings to train its AI models. Users are now opted into this expanded AI training unless they actively choose to opt out.

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