This Website Shows How Much Google’s AI Can Glean From Your Photos
WiredSoftware engineer Vishnu Mohandas decided he would quit Google in more ways than one when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. Then one weekend in May, an intern at Ente came up with an idea: Give people a sense of what some of Google’s AI models can learn from studying images. But the AI still makes a number of assumptions about Mohandas and his family, like that their faces are expressing “joint contentment” and the “parents are likely of South Asian descent, middle class.” It judges their clothing and notes that “the woman's watch displays a time as approximately 2 pm, which corroborates with the image metadata.” Google spokesperson Colin Smith declined to comment directly on Ente’s 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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