Gemini is currently the only major AI that forces a “Hard Link” between your personal history sidebar and their data training/retention.
Which is pretty pants in my opinion as I like Gemini.
Are you using a free version of Gemini or ?
Would “telling” Google to not save your data be an acceptable solution?
Only the business/enterprise version don’t lock your privacy with your history. Personal paid versions still link the two.
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Interesting. Are you talking about Google’s Personal Intelligence? I haven’t used that in my free Gmail account.
I was thinking that turning off Web & App Activity would keep your search history and YouTube watch history away from Gemini.
Yes, you can do that, but then you lose all your AI chat history.
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Yeah this surprised me. I saw a three month cheapo deal and thought I’d try it. Went to turn off training and, nope. Your options are training fully on or anonymous mode.
Not being able to check the results of a chat from the previous day massively hamstrings the effectiveness of the thing. So I’m definitely not bothering when the three months runs out.
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I have a free year with Gemini AI pro. It’s very impressive. I’ve set it to delete every 3 months at the moment. Sad that Google hamper such a good app. The Pixel with AI leaves the iPhone in the dust. With Apple’s faux pas with AI, Google could gain a lot of users were it not for their decision to lock the history with using their customer’s data.
Maybe Google will rethink that at some point in the future.
I started replacing SIri with the Google Assistant a few years ago. At that time Siri was responding to almost every question about Apple with something like “Apple.com can help you with that” and one day I had enough.
Gemini recently replaced the Assistant on the two Google mini speakers I purchased some years ago. It is built in to Google Maps and other iOS apps, and can be summoned by Siri (using a shortcut). I have considered purchasing a Pixel to take full advantage of my Google Workspace account but that may not be necessary.
Especially if Siri’s “replacement that doesn’t suck” allows me direct access to Gemini and whatever Apple Intelligence might bring to the party. Seems like everyone wants their software on the iPhone. That’s another advantage of using Apple hardware.