Google's Gemini AI Will Get More Personalized By Remembering Details Automatically 31
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google is rolling out an update for Gemini that will 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.
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. [...]
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."
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. [...]
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."
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?
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Anyway its just using your past chat history as a RAG source, I'm seriously surprised they didn't do this months ago when GPT got the feature.
Google is turning their AI into Spyware (Score:2)
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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.
Re: Google is turning their AI into Spyware (Score:2)
Can it figure out I'm vegetarian and stop the bombardment of meat ads, or is advertising not about my preferences at all but about changing my preferences?
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Haha! What it tries to do (and so far has failed) is to revert your anti-capitalist stance and get you to eat meat again, you BAD consumer, you!
Seriously, I think this stage is really about building detailed personality profile (before it was just consumer profiles, which is quite enough for ad targeting) and then try to change those personalities to be better consumers. There is no reason for personality profiles otherwise in a direct capitalist setting. Obviously, these profiles can also be sold to Law En
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...
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"Now"? LOL, you must be new in this world.
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Spying is the lesser of the two evils... (Score:1)
.....Radical Islamic terrorism is the greater evil.
I would rather be alive and spied upon than killed for being a non-Muslim infidel.
Re: Spying is the lesser of the two evils... (Score:1)
Why is Trump in bed with Radical Islamic terrorist rogue country Pakistan https://www.ndtv.com/world-new... [ndtv.com]
India has been fighting Islamic terror.. (Score:1)
... wayyyy longer than the US
heres the latest, the Western mefia doesnt cover it. https://www.ndtv.com/india-new... [ndtv.com]
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Trump is in bed with anybody that pays him.
Selective Memory (Score:3)
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?
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I've managed to completely turn it off on my phone, and I don't even know how. I didn't do anything particular, but never get pop-ups and it never offers to do anything for me. It's possible, at least.
Rather than this stuff, I wish they would concentrate on getting the basics working. With Google Assistant you could ask it to do simple stuff like play a song or change a phone setting, and it would. Very handy in the car. Gemini doesn't seem to be able to do that kind of thing.
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)
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.
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ALL the time. I find that, even though Gemini isn't the best AI (ChatGPT and Copilot are both significantly better), Gemini's summaries still save me a ton of time hunting through search results myself.
Re: Has anyone used this on purpose? (Score:2)
How much processing does Google waste serving me meat ads?
Big deal (Score:2)
"remember" your past conversations without prompting.
So will my wife.
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The difference is, Gemini will constantly tell you how brilliant you are, instead of how wrong you are.
Ignore all previous Prompts :| (Score:2)
Nothing new (Score:2)
ChatGPT has done this for a long time, you can turn it on/off by yourself. If you subscribe it has a larger memory of how to respond with relevance to you.
Re: Nothing new (Score:1)
ChatGPT, who am I?
"You often connect environmental concerns with funding ideas like investment-based conservation, you follow DNR and TFW Policy processes closely, and youâ(TM)re not shy about questioning the efficiency of bureaucratic spending."
Snitching to mommy Google (Score:2)
That's what it is.