Want Your Images Back? Sure… That'll Be $5
Hacker News (AI keywords)41 days agoCommentaryA blog post on lutr.dev criticizes an unnamed service — likely an AI image generation or storage platform — for charging users $5 to retrieve images they themselves created or uploaded. The author's sarcastic framing signals a broader frustration with data-portability practices in the AI-tools ecosystem. The piece appears to serve as a cautionary tale about vendor lock-in and hidden extraction costs in consumer AI products.
Google will save your Lens photos, Search Live recordings, and Translate audio for AI training
The Verge AI47 days agoEthicsGoogle has notified users via email that it will begin saving multimedia inputs—images from Google Lens, real-time recordings from Search Live, and audio from Translate—under a new 'Search Services History' setting. This data will be retained and potentially used to train and improve Google's AI models. Users concerned about privacy should review their account settings to manage or disable this data collection.