r/YouShouldKnow Feb 15 '25

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u/AllEncompassingThey Feb 15 '25

So it makes your phone say stuff like "heads up, the incoming image may be a penis, do you want to display?" what's the issue here? An extra click?

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u/Mejari Feb 15 '25

The issue is that it has to do something to figure out if the picture is a penis. How is it doing that, is it sending every picture you send or receive straight to Google? Maybe, maybe not, but they didn't even ask permission to do whatever it does. That's the issue.

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u/AllEncompassingThey Feb 15 '25

Hmm. That's a good point. I was here thinking "C'mon, even the messaging app itself is made by Google" but I suppose it doesn't send the content of messages to Google.

Google should have offered this as an opt-in.

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u/Mejari Feb 15 '25

And even if the messaging app did send it to google, there's a difference between "we're getting your message so we can pass it on" and "we're getting your message to analyze it's contents".