Google Has a Big AI Advantage: It Already Knows Everything About You (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/22/1436255/google-has-a-big-ai-advantage-it-already-knows-everything-about-you
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/671201/google-personal-context-ai-advantage-data
> Google first started letting users opt in to its "Gemini with personalization" feature earlier this year, which lets the AI model tap into your search history "to provide responses that are uniquely insightful and directly address your needs." But now, Google is taking things a step further by unlocking access to even more of your information -- all in the name of providing you with more personalized, AI-generated responses.
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> During Google I/O on Tuesday, Google introduced something called "personal context," which will allow Gemini models to pull relevant information from across Google's apps, as long as it has your permission. One way Google is doing this is through Gmail's personalized smart replies -- the AI-generated messages that you can use to quickly reply to emails.
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> To make these AI responses sound "authentically like you," Gemini will pore over your previous emails and even your Google Drive files to craft a reply tailored to your conversation. The response will even incorporate your tone, the greeting you use the most, and even "favorite word choices," according to Google.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/671201/google-personal-context-ai-advantage-data
fb (Score:2)
Doesn't Facebook know way, waaay more?
Personal data + untrusted input + exfil vector (Score:2)
Yay, this combines all the ingredients for lots of costly, embarrassing mistakes or worse.
People will get used to this and stop proof reading, just like we see people doing with code and legal briefs.
And then the robot will refer to someone's partner by the wrong name, leak something important in negotiations, or a thousand other stupid, preventable mistakes.
Total nightmare (Score:3)
Another reason to use other options like duckduckgo, or other browsers (I still like Firefox even with its missteps).
The big problem with this too is that you reinforce echo chambers using your history, which isn't really a good thing, getting a range of perspectives even in search / AI results helps mitigate exaggerated beliefs or viewpoints (e.g. 'x is everywhere', 'y is always happening', 'everyone believes z')
I also wonder how long it will be 'opt-in' until they make it the default and you have to 'opt-out'
Total clusterfuck of an idea imo...
It knows everything about me (Score:2)
But it still can't figure out I don't want constant changes to the gmail interface. Interesting. Another win for AI?
Great idea! (Score:2)
Now we can explicitly and complicitly train LLMs to impersonate us, as individual and unique humans, with near-perfect fidelity. What could possibly go wrong? /sarc
Dunning-Kruger at work (Score:2)
It does not. But it does not know that. Also, even beginning to store data about me without my explicite consent happens to be highly illegal. (Yes, I am in Europe...)
Odd? (Score:2)
Seems to me AI should know a lot about real things. Not a lot about individuals. Guess we know what they are selling!