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

Google is introducing a new 'Search Services History' setting that will save your images, voice searches, and Translate audio to train its AI models. Users will have the option to opt-out of this data collection.

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.

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

You can turn off this option under a new ‘Search Services History’ setting.

That includes the images you search for with Google Lens, recordings from its real-time Search Live tool, voice searches, and phrases spoken into Translate, according to an update on the company’s website. You can switch off the Search Services History setting and disable the “Save Media” option if you don’t want Google to save these interactions.

Google says it will use your Search Services History to “provide, develop, and improve its services,” including its AI models, as well as offer personalized suggestions and ads if you have the new “Personalized Recommendations” setting switched on. These two settings will now be separate from Google’s Web & App Activity option, which previously included search-related interactions and some toggles for saving audio recordings and visual searches.

If you’ve already blocked Google from saving your search history through Web & App Activity, Google will keep Search Services History switched off following the transition. It will also carry over your personalization preferences when these settings roll out over the “next few months.”

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Source: The Verge AI

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