"Google rolled out Personal Intelligence to subscribers of Google AI Pro and AI Ultra last week. Once you opt in, the AI can scour your Gmail and Google Photos accounts, and a more powerful version released for the Gemini app earlier this month goes even deeper, raking your Search and YouTube history, too. In short, if you've ever used Google for anything, it can probably dig it up."
"This represents one way Google intends to keep its edge in the AI race. Unlike competitors such as OpenAI, it has decades' worth of user data on billions of people. It can infer plenty from your Google searches alone, and your Gmail account is probably littered with confirmations and reminders for all kinds of life events, ranging from doctor's appointments to hotel bookings to online purchases."
Google's Personal Intelligence feature, available to paid AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers and expanded in the Gemini app, can access users' Gmail, Google Photos, Search, and YouTube histories when users opt in. User testing showed the AI surfaced highly specific personal details, including license-plate information and relatives' travel histories, sometimes without explicit prompting. Google leverages decades of user data to power its AI inferences, using search and email metadata to reconstruct life events and purchases. Google states the systems train on prompts and responses rather than private photos or emails and says they do not train models to memorize specific identifiers.
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