Just so you know. Maybe I'm late to the party.
I take pictures of letters that I write in longhand (yeah, I do that, I'm old, and weird) just so I don't repeat myself in subsequent letters.
Yesterday, I searched in Google Photos on a word in the text of a letter, and it worked!.
So, I surmise that Google is using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to index pictures of handwritten text and using that in it's search algorithm(s). I assume it has been going on a while since it found something I wrote months ago.
Don't assume that using an image protects your content from our tech overlords.
Image credit https://unsplash.com/@jbcalligraphy52.
4 Comments
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1y
Not on my chicken scratch.
SoyTDI@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
That's how they translate images. It have been a thing for years.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
They already have enough shit from me. I'm not handing them even more stuff to train with if I can help it.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
You just reminded me that i wanted to make my own form of shorthand for my notes, and stuff like this might be a good reason to