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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by baq on Friday November 13, 2020 @10:29AM (#25083250)
Network effects, unintended side effects, operator incompetence, risk of information leak... GDPR should have me covered, but I won’t be able to remove myself from deep learning models they already have.
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Re:Google Photos hooked users with free unlimited storage. N... by asdfasgasdgasdg on Friday November 13, 2020 @11:21AM (#25083832)
That is not true. Google retrains its models periodically. Removed data is not used for training models. Also I'm not sure that private user photos can even be used for training cross user models because I don't see how these photos could possibly be disclosed to raters, so there would be no ground truth.
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