Google email about the confidentiality of the twins causes a rather commotion. The alarm came from a change in what could access the chat bot when your story is disabled. However, the consequences of the update are much less sensational than initially.
Here is the heart e-mail This caused Hubbub in a different sleepy summer technical press. “Gemini will soon be able to help you use the phone, messages, WhatsApp and utilities on your phone, Will your activity with twins be turned on or off“” (Our emphasis) in an email, it was also noted that the change begins automatically on July 7. So, this bold part sounds pretty bad, right? Gemini simply penetrate through our texts, regardless of what we say ??!
In this case, the change is nothing more than, well, that is still AI companies do with your dataThe field before this update to set up the activity of Gemini applications had be included to use these extensions. If you want to allow Gemini to process tasks, such as making calls or sending texts, you need to save your conversations. If not, you could not use the phone, messages, WhatsApp or Gemini utilities.
In other words, you had To store chats on Google servers to get the full power of the twins. (Google still keeps them for 72 hours, even when he left. But this mandatory period was in place With Gemini still called bard.) It also meant that your interactions can be used to teach the Google AI models.
What is happening now seems better for confidentiality. Now you can leave the history of the chatbot and at the same time use these functions. You still do not need to use extensions. If you do this, Google will not train on them and not store them for more than three days if your applications are disconnected.
The update is probably a case when Google has paved the way for twins to replace Google Assistant on Android. (This will happen later this year.) These are the tasks with which it will be necessary to fulfill the default default tasks. Gemini already In fact, an assistant on pixel phonesField
In the statement sent by Engadget, Google helped clarify the confusion. “This update is useful for users: now they can use Gemini to perform daily tasks on their mobile devices, such as sending messages, initiating phone calls and installing timers, while the activity of Gemini applications turns off. Using Apps Apps, their Gemini chats are not reviewed for obsessive model. https://gemini.google.com/apps.
Thus, this seems to be a storm in a cup among the technical press, striving to cover something interesting for a slow season. But you know what? I'm cool with this. It's nice to worry about AI confidentiality. You would It is better to be if you use these services. If some of our competitors jumped onto the pistol, announcing this an emergency when this is not so, well … this is much better than dismissing these things.