Ask Photos, the Google assistant to avoid remembering your ex

Google claims that this new tool is enabled by Gemini’s multimodal capabilities, which can understand context and themes from photographs and of which it also showed a prototype assistant in real time.

For example, you can ask: “What themes did we have for Lena’s birthday parties?” Ask Photos will understand details, like what decorations are in the background or on the birthday cake, to give you the answer.

With this function it will also be possible to compile a compilation of photographs automatically to later share it as a video with a personalized title on social networks, according to the announcement.

Google highlighted that Ask Photos is capable of understanding not only keywords such as places, people or dates, but also concepts, such as “themed birthday party.” On the other hand, its response seeks to be safe and appropriate for all audiences.

Just as it is capable of finding information about specific users, it is possible that you find the name of one of the people in your gallery to restrict the search, or to in some way hide their information in the recaps that the application makes daily.

Regarding the privacy of photo information, Google said that personal data from Photos is never used for ads, and that company workers do not review conversations or data, except in cases where there is potential abuse. or damage.

Another issue that stood out in relation to the new tool is that the images are not used to train any generative AI products outside of the Photos app itself, so personal data is protected by Google standards.

When will Ask Photos be available?

The company stated that Ask Photos is an experimental feature that will begin rolling out sometime in the summer, in addition to adding more capabilities for users who upload 6 billion images (videos and photos) daily.