Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos. If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to simplify prompts and produce more accurate AI images.
This change essentially streamlines an existing workflow. Google’s Nano Banana 2 is among the best AI image generators available, and it was already possible to feed it images of yourself or others to use as context for creating new AI content. Adding personal intelligence to the mix makes that process smoother by turning the image bot loose on the content of your photos, if indeed that’s something you want to do.
It is generally true that adding more personal data to an AI prompt results in a better output. Google offers a few examples of how connecting Nano Banana to Photos can help in this way. You won’t have to pack as much context into your prompts—you can just refer to “my family” or “my dog” to let the robot find useful images in your Photos library.
Just what I need. Family photos that never happened. “OK, Google, show me a Christmas photo where my dad actually went out for a pack of smokes and immediately returned.”
This video is pretty silly too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3cYlVWu5Dk
It’s a forty-five year old photo of myself. My kids aren’t present on my social media. In fact I’m not on social media except as an anonymous person. So while I appreciate your message, you’re missing me with it.
That’s partly why the analysis is hilarious to me. Political parties aren’t the same now. Incomes aren’t the same. I was “vandalizing” sand at a campground. I can’t even begin to understand the presumption of Christian background or what that has to do with the sexual orientation of a 7 year old.