I use free apps every day, and I write about them constantly. In many cases, they’re genuinely great. Some of the most useful software on my phone and computer doesn’t cost me a cent upfront. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually free.

The addition is meant to just be a fun way to explore your photos and experiment with Google's Gemini AI technology, and specifically Nano Banana.

Google Photos is rolling out a new AI feature called Me Meme that lets you recreate trending memes with photos of yourself.

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Google Photos is one of my most-used apps, but I have to admit I don’t love everything about it. When an app tries to do as much as Google Photos does, there’s bound to be things that annoy you. Thankfully, most of these things can be simply disabled.

Google has toyed with personalized answers in Gemini, but that was just a hint of what was to come. Today, the company is announcing extensive "personal intelligence" in Gemini that allows the chatbot to connect to Gmail, Photos, Search, and YouTube to craft more useful answers to your questions. If you don't want Gemini to get to know you, there's some good news. Personal intelligence is beginning as a feature for paid users, and it's entirely optional.

By every measure, Google's models are at or near the top of the AI heap. In general, the more information you feed into a generative AI, the better the outputs are. And when that data is personal to you, the resulting inference is theoretically more useful. Google just so happens to have a lot of personal data on all its users, so it's relatively simple to feed that data into Gemini.

As Personal Intelligence rolls out over the coming weeks, AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers will see the option to connect those data sources. Each can be connected individually, so you might choose to allow Gmail access but block Photos, for example. When Gemini is allowed access to other Google products, it incorporates that data into its responses.

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Google’s Nano Banana AI tool is raising new privacy questions, putting how photos are analyzed and stored in focus for 1.5 billion people worldwide.

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Google’s Nano Banana AI tool is raising new privacy questions, putting how photos are analyzed and stored in focus for 1.5 billion people worldwide.

The post Google’s Nano Banana Renews AI Privacy Concerns for 1.5 Billion People appeared first on TechRepublic.