> Giving an app’s AI free rein to look through photos on your device feels a little invasive

“A little”? You might as well start writing the followup article where everyone’s photos were leaked despite Tinder claiming they wouldn’t store any of them. Or will it be an article about how they sold the information from your photos to advertisers? This is a breach waiting to happen, from someone you already know you can’t trust due to all the past shadiness.

That's an interesting way to scam people into allowing them to mine your phone for training data.