I can see why OP might not like this. I can also see that, at least on this site, everyone has been saying, "Stop using Google for anything," for a variety of different reasons - many of which boil down to you are the product and they can't be trusted - for about a decade now. So I'm sitting on the fence in some respects.

OTOH it's not really surprising that Google would do something with personal photos that at least some portion of their target market are going to find pretty creepy.

There was a story somewhere that a young person showed an ai version of grandpa to grandma and she loved it (or something similar).

People will like this feature.

I'm already intrigued by the post tbh.

If you haven't watched the most recent Google i/o keynote, I'd recommend checking it out. They showed a lot of intriguing capabilities