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Google has halted the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ feature in Google Photos, citing latency, quality concerns, and overall user experience issues. The experimental feature, leveraging a tailored version of Google’s Gemini AI, enables users to query their photo library using natural language. Google stated that the rollout, limited to a small user base, was paused to resolve these problems. An improved version is anticipated in roughly two weeks. While ‘Ask Photos’ is on hold, Google is boosting the precision of keyword searches within Photos, allowing users to utilize quotes for exact text string matching. This setback echoes previous instances where Google paused AI feature deployments, including ‘AI Overview’ in Google Search and Gemini’s image generator, to rectify inaccuracies and other operational flaws.