Google Just Launched A Scary AI Feature And Here's How To Disable It
Source: Yahoo News
Published on: 2026-06-19 14:42
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you use Google to ask your most private questions, you don't want to ignore an important email that the tech giant recently sent to users about how a new setting will be used to train its artificially-intelligent models. In fact, one privacy expert insists that people opt out of it. With Google's expanded AI capabilities, people can upload images to Google Lens, and use live audio and video recordings to ask the search engine questions. And now, Google said it plans to save the images, files, audio and video you upload under its new "Search Services History" setting. The email to users reads in part, "Google will now save your media to your Search Services History, applying robust privacy and security protections. Like your Search Services History, your saved media is also used to develop and improve Google servic...
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