Google's Lens AI Camera Is Now a Standalone App (androidpolice.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday June 5, 2018 @11:40AM from the come-and-get-it dept.

Google Lens is now available as an app in the Play Store for devices with Android Marshmallow and above. The app is designed to bring up relevant information using visual analysis. Android Police reports: When you open the app, it goes right into a live viewfinder with Lens looking for things it can ID. Like the Assistant version of Lens, you can tap on items to get more information (assuming Google can figure out what they are) and copy text from documents. However, I've noticed that copying text doesn't work on the OnePlus 6 right now. It works fine with the built-in Lens version. Some users are reporting that it's not working properly on some devices, so keep that mind if you decide to give it a whirl.

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Of course they have... by thesupraman · 2018-06-05 11:58 · Score: 3, Insightful

Google wants more and more of the users data to feed the Machine Learning.
Why would they not want all photos submitted to their machine learning platform, almost certainly with geolocation tagging, etc followed by people teaching it who and what the subjects are.
Not sure if I would consider it 'free' though... Is giving up more and more privacy really free?