"Perhaps sensing that feeding more data into Gemini would give many people the creeps, Google's announcement explains at great length how the company has approached privacy in Personal Intelligence. Google isn't getting any new information about you-your photos, email, and search behaviors are already stored on Google's servers, so "you don't have to send sensitive data elsewhere to start personalizing your experience.""
"Google also stresses that your personal data is "not directly used to train the model." So the images or search habits it references in outputs are not used for training, but the prompts and resulting outputs may be used. Woodward notes that all personal data is filtered from training data. Put another way, the system isn't trained to learn your license plate number, but it is trained to be able to locate an image containing your license plate."
Gemini Personal Intelligence accesses users' photos, email, and search data already stored on Google's servers rather than ingesting new user information. The system includes guardrails that prevent the assistant from using certain sensitive information, such as health data, unless explicitly requested. Personal data is not directly used to train the underlying model, though prompts and generated outputs may be used and personal data is filtered from training sets. The system is trained to locate content (for example, an image containing a license plate) without learning specific private details. The feature is in beta for paid Gemini accounts across web, Android, and iOS and remains optional.
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