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Don't tell your AI anything personal, Google warns in new Gemini privacy notice (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Google Warns of Privacy Risks with New AI Assistant "Gemini"

Key Points:

Google's new AI assistant, Gemini, collects your conversations, location, feedback, and usage information.
Be cautious: This includes your actual conversations, not just summaries. They are stored for 3 years, even after deleting activity.
Don't share sensitive information: Google may use it to improve AI and might share it with human reviewers.
Even turning off activity tracking doesn't prevent conversations from being saved for 72 hours.

Additional Notes:

This applies to all Gemini apps, not just the main assistant.
Google claims they don't sell your information but use it for internal purposes.

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[–] br3d 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean, just look at the way Microsoft are trying to ram "AI" into every interaction with every app right now. As the big players make it more and more non-optional, people are going to have to work really hard not to put anything into, say, Word that they don't want sent back for analysis

[–] Boozilla 4 points 9 months ago

You make an important point, it is definitely being layered in to all sorts of apps. Some of it is box-checking bullshit, so that a marketing underling can tell the c-suite "we have implemented AI". But some of it is semi-sophisticated bossware type shit. It's going to get smarter and it's going to be everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is my big concern. Right now Gemini is an option you can switch on to replace the existing assistant, which I expect has similar terms. But how long will it be until Google just integrates this with their email, search, and online office suite with no options to disable it? They'll tout it as an improvement and new features.

Microsoft at least has to cater to business customers, so there will be options for systems administrators to opt-out for longer. With their government contracts they will have to prove adequate security. I still don't like the AI push, or Microsoft as a whole, but I trust them not to have a data leak, or to sell business data to whoever. They don't have overwhelming financial incentives in advertising or data collection for it, just normal sized incentives.

On the other hand, Google's biggest revenue stream is advertising, and that works due to the absurd amount of non-paying users they have with their free services. They have no business or financial incentives whatsoever to not just offer all this data they collect up on a silver platter. No incentives not to train horrible dystopian AI to maximize advertising effectiveness through A/B testing specific market/interest groups on an unimaginable scale.

Google also has a history of collecting more data than they were allowed to, pinning it on a "rogue employee enabling a feature they were told to disable" when they are caught, and then proceeding to use that data anyway for their projects after the news dies down.

I've always wanted to see a true "AI" personal assistant, leveraging tech to make lives easier, but this shit is not the way.