Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers
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EmphyrioDonk
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But, it's Google, "do no evil" Google. Surely they can be trusted..ehm Oh ! Wait!
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After losing my Gmail for about 6 months, with no way to recover, I learned not to trust Google...at all. Fortunately there were only a few other accounts tied to the email address that I couldn't access easily.
The most amusing thing for me is that you have to pay Big Bro to snoop extra on you. Why roll out a sneaky surveillance tool, when you can get people to pay big bucks to buy it?
The most amusing thing for me is that you have to pay Big Bro to snoop extra on you. Why roll out a sneaky surveillance tool, when you can get people to pay big bucks to buy it?
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I'm personally finding it fairly annoying, and not helpful. When I ask Gemini for TOTK Luminous Stone routes, which it's great at, now it has to add "Since you're a graphics programmer, do you want to hear more about how the Luminous Stone shader makes its lovely glow?" No, I really don't!
Not all conversations need to mix, and what it's decided it knows about me is irrelevant to 99% of them, because people exist in different contexts. When coding with LLMs I'll frequently start a new session on an existing project specifically to erase all the useless context that builds up over iteration and confuses things.
Not all conversations need to mix, and what it's decided it knows about me is irrelevant to 99% of them, because people exist in different contexts. When coding with LLMs I'll frequently start a new session on an existing project specifically to erase all the useless context that builds up over iteration and confuses things.
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Super excited for agentic AI to proactively buy me that ED medicine I am constantly being emailed about
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Not to worry; your correspondents will keep them in the loop.
As a man once said,
https://www.theregister.com/2010/02/01/steve_jobs_on_google/Steve Jobs said:
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Migrated to Proton for my email specifically to avoid my emails being ingested and trained on. Very happy with it. However, everyone you talk to still uses gmail so they still get all of it.
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I stopped using Gmail about 7 years ago (no mail goes there) but kept it for the Analytics (which is useless now) for my clients. I've since migrated them to Matamo and just hang on to the account b/c I've had it over 20 years.
If you figure out where you use it, just change the email addresses and post an auto reply saying "I'm leaving Gmail. Please use THIS address instead." for 6 months. Also forward everything to your new address and begin replying from there. Your use of Gmail will slowly wither & die.
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Same here, though my migration is kinda ongoing. It was too dang easy to get so much tied to gmail over the years. It's like undoing the Gordian knot without the benefit of a big sharp sword.
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Keith Tanner
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I'm the administrator for Google Workspace for our company. I'm going to see if I can turn this thing off for all users.
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Same, need to start the migration to proton soon so that in 5 years I might be free of google.
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But my inbox is full of garbage that I didn't ask for? I won't want it to think that I want to actually connect with classmates.com or read anything on LinkedIn!
Read a license plate? All their government contracts are really paying off!
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ubercurmudgeon
Ars Praefectus
Agent Gemini: "I say your civilization, because as soon as we started choosing tires for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about."
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This reminds me I have a few family members I still need to help get off of Gmail
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From the article :
Gemini Response :
"I am sorry, i can't help you here.
Given your intelligence level based on your e-mails, where your photos of you sticking stuff into your body where they really shouldn't go, watching depraved videos, and searching for things only an in bred would want to see, Gemini has come to the conclusion that you are real fucking div.
Gemini suggests you stop operating any machinery and stop driving too".
Gemini Response :
"I am sorry, i can't help you here.
Given your intelligence level based on your e-mails, where your photos of you sticking stuff into your body where they really shouldn't go, watching depraved videos, and searching for things only an in bred would want to see, Gemini has come to the conclusion that you are real fucking div.
Gemini suggests you stop operating any machinery and stop driving too".
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I'm still trying to figure out what problem this is actually solving, and whether it would actually solve it. The tires/license plate example isn't really getting me there.
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Windows 11 BS has finally gotten me to install Linux/Bazzite after years of thinking about it, so maybe I'll finally get around to installing GrapheneOS or something if this keeps up. Or hell just go back to a flip phone.
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At least I've stopped using it years ago.
But there's sometime the long forgotten service where I used it and it's still linked so I keep it just in case.
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It's good of them to provide additional incentives for me to take on one of the last two places I consciously interact with Google - my email. After ditching storage, office apps, and search, I'm left with email and YouTube. I just need to pick a provider for email to get that migration started.
I don't expect I'll be able/willing to extract myself from YouTube. Too many content creators I enjoy watching and supporting only publish on YouTube. It's also the only place I've found where I can upload videos that are 4+ hours long at no monetary cost to me to publish, or to the rest of my gaming group to view.
I don't expect I'll be able/willing to extract myself from YouTube. Too many content creators I enjoy watching and supporting only publish on YouTube. It's also the only place I've found where I can upload videos that are 4+ hours long at no monetary cost to me to publish, or to the rest of my gaming group to view.
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Glad like some others have said that I've started migrating away from Gmail to Proton. If I want an LLM to interact with, it'll be one I installed on my own computer that I control what it sees.
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Google reassuring me that they already HAVE all my information isn't nearly as comforting as they seem to think it would be.
For my part, I get annoyed by the photos app constantly asking me to upload my photos to their server "for safekeeping". No thank you. I keep all my photos local on my phone, and if I find out they've been uploading them ANYWAY, in spite of me opting out every single time, I'll be very cross.
For my part, I get annoyed by the photos app constantly asking me to upload my photos to their server "for safekeeping". No thank you. I keep all my photos local on my phone, and if I find out they've been uploading them ANYWAY, in spite of me opting out every single time, I'll be very cross.
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I bloody well guarentee you that it can't give better answers/responses to my email than I would give.
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This is how you know AI is getting too expensive to maintain. A couple of years ago this would have been forced on users.
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I tend to like/use AI more than it appears do many Ars commenters, but... is Google freaking kidding me???
"When Gemini is allowed access to other Google products, it incorporates that data into its responses...Google VP Josh Woodward claims that he’s already seeing advantages while testing the feature. When shopping for tires, Gemini referenced road trip photos to justify different suggestions and pulled the license plate number from a separate image."
The examples they used were, first: to ask AI what tires he should buy and second, to ask AI what his goddamn license number was??? Seriously??? This is the best they could come up with???
If you can't determine what kind of tires you should buy or what your license plate number is, you've got bigger problems and not only don't I think you should be using an AI model to help, I don't think you should be driving at all.
"When Gemini is allowed access to other Google products, it incorporates that data into its responses...Google VP Josh Woodward claims that he’s already seeing advantages while testing the feature. When shopping for tires, Gemini referenced road trip photos to justify different suggestions and pulled the license plate number from a separate image."
The examples they used were, first: to ask AI what tires he should buy and second, to ask AI what his goddamn license number was??? Seriously??? This is the best they could come up with???
If you can't determine what kind of tires you should buy or what your license plate number is, you've got bigger problems and not only don't I think you should be using an AI model to help, I don't think you should be driving at all.
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