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They may even save every Google meet meeting for all we know. They may train their AI on how our faces look in meetings.
Nothing is too creepy for Google.
Why would they need that? There is plenty of your face on Google photos.
For you, maybe. Mine is filled with black screen pocket photos, furry porn, and 714 copies of a video of a horrifying mecha furby that's stepping on its own removed face.
Another copy shows up every time I have a nightmare about it, which is pretty odd, now that I think about it.
Why would they need that? Let me introduce you to Big Data.
The faces training was all of the filters. Every single time someone took a video or picture and used filters to add cute moe eyes, or make themselves look like a crab, it was being used to make whichever company was doing it have a better bottom line or to accelerate their facial recognition.