Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) is allowing its Gemini artificial intelligence (A.I.) chatbot to connect with users’ personal photographs via the Nano Banana image generator.
Alphabet said users can now connect their “Personal Intelligence,” an A.I. feature that uses Google apps to produce personalized answers, with its Gemini chatbot.
The Nano Banana tool can then create personal images based on the user’s private photos as opposed to needing images to be manually uploaded to the chatbot.
Users can ask Gemini to “create a Claymation image of me and my family enjoying our favorite activity” and Gemini can generate that specific image automatically, the company said.
Nano Banana was a hit when it launched last year, as people uploaded personal photos to create digital miniature figurines of themselves.
The Nano Banana feature also helped pushed the Gemini app to the top spot on the Apple (AAPL) App Store, topping OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The ability to directly connect to a user’s photographs is a big step forward in allowing the A.I. chatbot to link with people’s private information.
Users will have to opt in to Personal Intelligence in order to connect Google apps to Gemini and its Nano Banana feature, the company said.
The new personalized image creation feature is available to paid Gemini subscribers.
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