Google Cautions Users Over Privacy Risks of Sharing Personal Data With AI Chatbots
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Google warns Android and iPhone users to not share confidential info with AI chatbots like Gemini as it collects conversations to improve its services.
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Google states it uses collected Gemini conversations to develop products, services and machine learning tech, but not for ads currently.
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Oversharing personal info with AI chatbots creates privacy and security risks as conversations are stored and could potentially leak.
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Google will store Gemini usage data like conversations for up to 36 months by default to improve its generative AI models.
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Users face a tradeoff between highly integrated AI apps and protecting their privacy as on/off-device processing divides Apple and Google.