Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos. If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to simplify prompts and produce more accurate AI images.This change essentially streamlines an existing workflow. Google’s Nano Banana 2 is among the best AI image generators available, and it was already possible to feed it images of yourself or others to use as context for creating new AI content. Adding personal intelligence to the mix makes that process smoother by turning the image bot loose on the content of your photos, if indeed that’s something you want to do.
It is generally true that adding more personal data to an AI prompt results in a better output. Google offers a few examples of how connecting Nano Banana to Photos can help in this way. You won’t have to pack
... Show more...Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos. If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to simplify prompts and produce more accurate AI images.This change essentially streamlines an existing workflow. Google’s Nano Banana 2 is among the best AI image generators available, and it was already possible to feed it images of yourself or others to use as context for creating new AI content. Adding personal intelligence to the mix makes that process smoother by turning the image bot loose on the content of your photos, if indeed that’s something you want to do.
It is generally true that adding more personal data to an AI prompt results in a better output. Google offers a few examples of how connecting Nano Banana to Photos can help in this way. You won’t have to pack as much context into your prompts—you can just refer to “my family” or “my dog” to let the robot find useful images in your Photos library.
Just what I need. Family photos that never happened. "OK, Google, show me a Christmas photo where my dad actually went out for a pack of smokes and immediately returned."
MagicShel
in reply to Powderhorn • • •Eh. Every once in a while I do appreciate this.
You can completely tell which is the AI photo, yet both preserve the memory and the essence of the moment. I hate that I have just a shitty quality picture of a picture of that moment. The quality of the AI version was enough that even my mom, who probably took the photo, couldn't tell the difference.
I get that it isn't the same but when all you have is a garbage version of a memory, I'm not sure or really matters whether the representation is the original garbage or something that makes you feel less regret over not having something better.
Zedstrian
in reply to MagicShel • • •I'd personally still rather have the authentic moment captured than an AI-polished version of it.
MagicShel
in reply to Zedstrian • • •brvslvrnst
in reply to MagicShel • • •IMO, that picture is the memory; the polish sterilizes and removes part of the "it" that makes you remember, and creates an ever more idealized version of life. I have the same hangups with places staged for tourists to take pictures, because it removes you from the process of creation and leaves you with a bland "it looks nice" memory.
I know this is also completely up to the person in question using it.
MagicShel
in reply to brvslvrnst • • •XLE
in reply to MagicShel • • •What Google sees:
They See Your Photos
They See Your PhotosMagicShel
in reply to XLE • • •XLE
in reply to MagicShel • • •- YouTube
www.youtube.comMagicShel
in reply to XLE • • •It's a forty-five year old photo of myself. My kids aren't present on my social media. In fact I'm not on social media except as an anonymous person. So while I appreciate your message, you're missing me with it.
That's partly why the analysis is hilarious to me. Political parties aren't the same now. Incomes aren't the same. I was "vandalizing" sand at a campground. I can't even begin to understand the presumption of Christian background or what that has to do with the sexual orientation of a 7 year old.
i_am_not_a_robot
in reply to Powderhorn • • •XLE
in reply to Powderhorn • • •Never mind the AI, Google is untrustworthy with your photos to begin with. Every single one of them already was used to train advertisement algorithms on things like personal vulnerabilities, vices, fears, latent problems...
theyseeyourphotos.com/
They See Your Photos
They See Your Photos