Google's Gemini AI Will Get More Personalized By Remembering Details Automatically
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/13/2143233/googles-gemini-ai-will-get-more-personalized-by-remembering-details-automatically
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> Google is [1]rolling out an update for Gemini that will [2]allow the AI chatbot to "remember" your past conversations without prompting . With the setting turned on, Gemini will automatically recall your "key details and preferences" and use them to personalize its output.
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> This expands upon an update that Google introduced last year, which lets you ask Gemini to "remember" your personal preferences and interests. Now, Gemini won't need prompting to recall this information. As an example, Google says if you've used Gemini to get ideas for a YouTube channel surrounding Japanese culture in the past, then AI chatbot might suggest creating content about trying Japanese food if you ask it to suggest new video ideas in the future. [...]
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> Google will turn on this feature by default, but you can disable it by heading to your settings in the Gemini app and selecting Personal Context. From there, toggle off the Your past chats with Gemini option. Google will roll out this feature to its Gemini 2.5 Pro model in "select countries" starting today, before eventually bringing it to more locations and its Gemini 2.5 Flash model.
Google will also rename its "Gemini Apps Activity" setting to "Keep Activity," which will use "a sample" of your file and photo uploads to Gemini to "help improve Google services for everyone" starting on September 2nd. If you've disabled the previous setting, the new "Keep Activity" setting will be disabled too.
There's also a new "temporary chats" feature in Gemini to preserve privacy. "Temporary chats won't appear in your recent chats or your Keep Activity setting," notes The Verge. "Gemini also won't use these chats to personalize future conversations, nor will Google use them to train its AI models. Google will only save these conversations for 72 hours."
[1] https://blog.google/products/gemini/temporary-chats-privacy-controls/
[2] https://www.theverge.com/news/758624/google-gemini-ai-automatic-memory-privacy-update
Google is turning their AI into Spyware (Score:2)
Just like the rest of Google: Spyware, ad pushing Spyware!
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> Just like the rest of Google: Spyware, ad pushing Spyware!
My thoughts exactly I don’t want them remembering stuff. I just want an answer and have them forget I asked.
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Indeed. This is clearly nothing but an excuse to profile users for better ad targeting.
Not a useful addition. (Score:2)
Gemini still struggles with complex problems and large numbers of files. These, IMHO, should take priority over personalisation. I've mentioned in my journal that it is really struggling on anything that is non-trivial. Why should I care what it remembers if it is going to be used in engineering but can't solve engineering problems in areas where you'd actually want AI?
The benchtest I'm using is, yes, more complicated than figuring out how to wire up a Christmas lights display. On the other hand, it's also
Great, more spying (Score:2)
Now they are building personality profiles...
Selective Memory (Score:2)
I wish Gemini would remember when I told it "Not interested", each of the several times it pops up on my phone each day.
What was that saying about it's hard to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on not understanding it?
can't wait (Score:2)
until it 'remembers' that my preference is to not have it disabled on all my devices and helps me by making sure i'm using the correct browser. etc.
Jokes aside, false positives in this kind of system are going to upset people.
Remembering personal details about users (Score:1)
Nothing can go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong, go wrong.....
Has anyone used this on purpose? (Score:2)
I see AI search results at the top of the screen constantly, and I always skip passed them. It annoys me as extra processing is wasted by Google on stuff I have zero interest in reading. I wish I had the option to disable this - at least CoPilot does nothing until evoked and Bixby is tied to a button or voice command, the former which I never used and the latter which I disabled.
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> I wish I had the option to disable this
I asked Gemini for you, but it's a little ironic that you need other people to figure these things out for you:
Tired of Google's AI Overviews cluttering your search results? While there's no official "off" switch, you can force Google to serve you plain web results by creating a custom search engine in Chrome. This effectively brings back the classic search experience.
Here’s the step-by-step:
1. Go to Chrome Settings > Search engine > Manage search engines and site search.
2. Under "Site search,"
Re: Has anyone used this on purpose? (Score:2)
I've used the Gemini app a few times. It's decent at stuff like "are there any indoor pools in these two counties open after 6pm today?"
Or, I tried uploading several photos of a non-functional air handler and asked it what's wrong. It came up with some decent suggestions to try.
Big deal (Score:2)
> "remember" your past conversations without prompting.
So will my wife.
Ignore all previous Prompts :| (Score:2)
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Suggesting Japanese food if you ask new videos (Score:3)
Were they high on drugs or did did they ask Gemini to provide the list of new features to implement next?