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Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training

Google just quietly expanded AI training data collection. Your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio are now fair game—unless you opt out.

Reporting by The Verge AI 1 min brief
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Why it matters

Google is systematizing data collection from user interactions across Search, Lens, and Translate to fuel AI model training. This represents a significant privacy/policy shift that will shape how enterprise AI leaders think about data governance, user consent, and competitive data advantages in the AI economy.

The key facts

5 to know

  1. New 'Search Services History' setting covers images, audio, video, and files from search interactions

  2. Includes Google Lens photos, Search Live recordings, voice searches, and Translate audio

  3. Users can opt out via 'Save Media' toggle

  4. Explicitly stated purpose is AI training and model improvement

  5. Policy change announced via email to users, not press release (stealth rollout signal)

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Publisher excerpt: Google is making some changes to how it saves your interactions with Search. In an email sent to users, Google says it will save the images, files, audio, and video you use to search under a new "Search Services History" setting. That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings…
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