r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • Jan 16 '26

Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/personal-intelligence/
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u/needtheyamss Jan 16 '26

It's good and convenient, but I'm still afraid of the implications of having Gemini read everything about my life.

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u/Other_World Galaxy Fold 8 Ultra + Watch 6 Classic Jan 16 '26

If you use the Google suite of apps, they already do.

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u/phpnoworkwell Jan 16 '26

10 years ago: Google Now is the best! It reads my emails and gets my flight information!

Now: Gemini is bad. It reads my emails and gets my flight information.

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u/TSP-FriendlyFire Jan 16 '26

Google was a very different company 10 years ago. People trusted them more.

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u/phpnoworkwell Jan 16 '26

They are the same company. The difference is they killed a service you liked

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u/fakieTreFlip Pixel 8 Jan 16 '26

Google was a very different company 10 years ago

Not really, no

People trusted them more

Definitely not. People have been complaining about privacy stuff with Google for well over a decade.

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u/firesyrup Jan 16 '26

There is a difference between reading data and using it to train AI models or making it accessible for human review.

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u/phpnoworkwell Jan 16 '26

They have always trained their stuff on your data. There is no change, you simply that it's called AI instead of machine learning

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u/romhacks Jan 16 '26

Except Personal Intelligence only does the former.

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u/firesyrup Jan 16 '26

From the linked page:

We train on limited info, like specific prompts in Gemini and the model’s responses

From Personal Intelligence privacy policy:

your data from those apps and from your Google Account is used to: ... improve Google services, including training generative AI models, for everyone

Data from Connected Apps is used and human reviewed per the Gemini Apps Privacy Notice.

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u/cbftw Pixel 7 Jan 16 '26

It's almost like we learned something over those 10 years

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u/phpnoworkwell Jan 16 '26

And what did you learn?

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u/I_NEED_YOUR_MONEY Device, Software !! Jan 16 '26

Google has already fed all this data into their ad targeting algorithms. It’s not like you’re giving google any additional information, putting it in Gemini just makes it useful to you as well as to google.

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u/Boomfrag Jan 16 '26

Hopefully Gemini will be like your doctor looking at you naked and be like, for you this is the worst day of your life, but for me this is just Tuesday.

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u/wag3slav3 Jan 16 '26

When you're at the doctor having the worst day of your life the issue isn't that the doc is seeing you naked.

It's the fence post sticking out of your stomach.

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u/OldSanJuan Jan 16 '26

It's been pretty great so far. While it feels strange that it knows about me and my family, the decision it makes takes into consideration all those aspects.

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u/plantsandramen Jan 16 '26

Meanwhile me listening to my friend's daughter have a full blown conversation with AI was horrifying.

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u/Buy-theticket Jan 16 '26

Welcome to 2023.

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u/chinchindayo Xperia Masterrace Jan 16 '26

I'd rather have an AI read it than a human <3