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Kaycee Hill

Google wants to train its AI on your search history. Here's how to opt out now

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Google is rolling out a new setting called "Search Services History" that saves your media inputs like Google Lens photos, Google Translate data and voice searches to train its AI models.

If you already have Google's master Web & App Activity turned off, you're safe. But for everyone else, this feature is enabled by default. It doesn't scrape external files you just listen to or click on, but it does harvest the voice commands and images you directly upload.

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