Pixel Screenshots just moved away from using on-device AI only, but is it less private?

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TL;DRThe Pixel Screenshots app is moving away from using on-device AI only and will start using cloud processing as well.It could use Google’s Private AI Compute technology to keep your information private and secure.The update hasn’t rolled out widely, but it could reach more users soon.When Google launched the Pixel Screenshots app with the Pixel 9, it used on-device AI running on the phone’s Tensor chip to organize and recall your screenshots. It was quite good at it, too. However, the company has now apparently decided that it does, in fact, need cloud-based AI processing to power the app, at least in some cases.The latest version of the Pixel Screenshots app (v1.26.134.11) comes with a change in the settings that highlights its switch from exclusively using on-device AI to using both on-device and cloud-based AI.