A photo sharing startup founded by an ex-Google engineer found a clever way to turn Google’s tech against itself.
Software engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. In 2020, he left his job working on Google Assistant and also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos. He feared that his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project.
He directed WIRED to support pages that state uploads to Google Photos are only used to train generative AI models that help people manage their image libraries, like those that analyze the age and location of photo subjects.The company says it doesn’t sell the content stored in Google Photos to third parties or use it for advertising purposes.
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