You don't mind Google using your kids to train their models and advertising algorithms?

Years from now they'll be getting "hey look at BIKE BRANDS' NEWEST CHEAP BIKE REMEMBER WHEN YOU USED TO RIDE BIKE BRAND BIKES"

I think most people really don't care, and/or will just adblock those sorts of things when they do arrive.

Don't worry. Most people spend most of their compute time on a phone, where you're ability to filter ads is way more enshitified.

What about in 10 years when they auto search and label users for political dissent and likelihood of impact

That's for future them to worry about, they'll think. Honestly I've never seen people historically care about privacy even if it means the government rounds them up, people simply don't seem to care at all, and trying to make them care is a futile effort in my experience.

That’s good to hear, open source ML models are getting better and better. I did a small experiment to generate a Spotify year in review like video here is a preview video https://github.com/IliasHad/edit-mind/tree/expirement/year-i...

do you use android and ios, or is there another benefit to having personal media with both?

Can you please elaborate more?

I think most people are either in on Google or in on Apple whereas the OP indicated they have their media stored with both

I run both on my phone as a lazy (but flawed) backup strategy.

I wish I could connect Apple photos to my Spotify account and have photo memories connected with songs I listened to at the time :)

Music memories are the best.

I booted up my old PS3 from my uni days (20 years ago?) and found all of the music I had on it because I used it for everything at the time. Some seriously nostalgic music I'd completely forgotten about.

I think the Apple stuff is done 100% on device.

Google loves scanning stuff on in the cloud though.