“Google wants ‘AI mode’ on Search to be as personal as possible, and it’ll soon tap into services like Gmail or Drive to know more about you.
Google believes the future of search is going to be more personal than ever, largely due to the increase in large language models usage.
That means in the future, AI Mode will pull details from your emails, documents, and other Google apps to give truly customized responses.”
SeKiyuri on
If they didn’t know everything about me until now, they were doing something wrong.
cbih on
I used to go to this restaurant a lot for lunch. One day I came in and the waitress said “Hi cbih, your usual?” I left that restaurant and never went back. I do not want familiarity with my goods and services.
kapege on
Your wet dreams will not come true for me, therefore I’m using DuckDuckGo with ad- and cookieblockers. Good luck greedy Google.
dgkimpton on
Christ. Time to look for an alternative to GMail it seems. Going to be a right pain to transition but if this is where they are going then there’s really no choice. Sigh.
jodrellbank_pants on
MF doesn’t even know my name or where I am,get out of here
usmannaeem on
I am ok with this if they also introduce a wipe my recent history over the last ‘xyz’ period’ to the mix.
Obviously for me that means shifting away from Google entirely.
WarbossTodd on
Does it know I’d sooner shit into my hands and clap than use it? Because it should.
LitmusPitmus on
From my eyes it’s obvious some form of chat control is coming. All the AI assistants on your phones, search engines, etc. They aren’t useful I literally swirched off AI overview cos the information was regularly bullshit. Never been a better time to degoogle
Malkovtheclown on
How about it gives me the results I asked for instead of trying to guess the hidden message in my very specific ask. That would be great if the search actually was useful instead of full of shit I didn’t ask for because I glanced at an ad on some random page before.
Suberizu on
Jokes on you, Google, soon all your services will be banned in my country
mrsuperjolly on
Imagine google software having access to your own emails while authenticated.
What a disaster.
I don’t want to be able to see any of my emails tyvm. Throw them in the fire.
zeolus123 on
Could they maybe start by knowing everything about the question I’ve asked??..
Lol, its hardly right more times than it’s wrong, but sure Google you’re gonna know me sooooo well.
yorangey on
You’re daft if you put personal stuff in a search. I always prefix it with “asking for a friend….” 😉
samisevil777 on
It is probably the worst AI service I’ve used, and that says something on its own.
ailish on
Doesn’t Google already know everything about me? I have to add more words because of the stupid word count requirement.
ToranjaNuclear on
Fine, I’ll never know though because I’m just blocking that shit from my search. It’ll be just like a nosy relative who keeps gossiping about me behind my back.
7grims on
Are they so detach from reality they think saying that is a positive??
We went too far from the old agreement “we collect some few data, you get a free product”
John-florencio on
Why all it seems to be converging to a distopian reality? Like Pull up if this person Said anything agains the status quo and let the AI court rule. This is scary….
My_Name_Is_Steven on
Time to make a new google account totally disassociate with who I am. I shall be Randy Thompkins III
nitram20 on
Jokes on them i don’t use gmail (i have one but it’s
empty and i used a fake name etc…) nor drive, nor the AI search mode.
deadlandsMarshal on
And that’s why I use Ecosia.
And why I’m trying to find an American made cell phone I can install an operating system I choose into it. No more Google sourced Android!
Bloody_Sunday on
These news seem stale… For a while there has already been an opt-in (actually opt-out as I think the usual sneaky bastards enabled it by default) for smart & personalised Google AI features coming from scanning your Google calendar, Gmail, Drive etc etc.
PaperbackBuddha on
It would be great if Google search started by knowing me well enough that it didn’t assume any common noun I look up was automatically the obscure football club, Icelandic rapper, or energy drink that has co-opted that word.
superflygrover on
If it can distinguish between my own searches and the weird stuff I look up for work, that might be impressive.
izzittho on
What I don’t understand is why they would just come out and *say* this like it’s a good thing or like we’ll even mistakenly think it is.
ProfessorHeronarty on
I hope more and more people understand all of this as a threat and not a promise. We don’t need shit that monitors us constantly and apparently ‘predicts’ what we’ll do. We need new technology to make our societies work better.
_LoveASS_ on
They’ve known everything about you for decades. The real challenge is figuring out how to use that to your advantage without handing over all that “private data.” And honestly, it’s not that hard nowadays with the tools we’ve got.
Schrodinger_cube on
Is that why there search functionality has become trash? They want to know more about me thus requires more engagement and knowing bing is a joke just made there product worse to profit more? I switched to using brave browser and see what is on reddit about my search. After all its probably used for there AI anyway so i want the source of the delusional ideas.
lowcrawler on
I’d settle for just giving links to relevant websites again. that seemed to work really well.
jelloslug on
So now I’m going to get ads for things I already bought. Great.
zelovoc on
Is there any plugin to chrome which filter out AI results?
Blapanda on
Knowing someone without even having a trace to the name, address and whatnot. And by the questions asked, that will be a hard guess who that person would be in the slightest.
Hazzman on
Wow, this is a really fantastic advertisment for duckduckgo
Nightrunner2016 on
I would prefer Google to fall behind at this point. I think it’s largely down to them that virtually everything we see on the internet is motivated by and driven towards showing ads. For many, many years the quality and potential of “the information age” has been severely diluted and polluted with content that is crafted for the sole purpose of garnering a click in order to display an ad. And ye just sounds like they want to use AI to do more of that. So if someone could introduce a better paradigm I’d love that.
Kennyvee98 on
this should be opt-in. like, legally…wtf, who wants this?
elforce001 on
They really think this is a flex. Thank God I switched to alternative solutions 4 years ago.
KrackSmellin on
This is why I stopped using Gmail except for the stuff I don’t care about (noting important), and have switched off using Chrome. Free products are never free when you’re the product…
Black_RL on
But how can I learn new stuff if results are biased towards me?
gainey666 on
ill be happy to get my .0001 $ from the class action lawsuit when it leaks its whole database to any one who asks it though a good prompt
SoftlySpokenPromises on
If this isn’t the most red flag of red flags I don’t know what is.
mrjane7 on
I stopped using Google like… a year ago? Haven’t regretted it yet.
CyberNinja23 on
Better stop searching how to dispose of large quantities of animal carcasses.
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“Google wants ‘AI mode’ on Search to be as personal as possible, and it’ll soon tap into services like Gmail or Drive to know more about you.
Google believes the future of search is going to be more personal than ever, largely due to the increase in large language models usage.
That means in the future, AI Mode will pull details from your emails, documents, and other Google apps to give truly customized responses.”
If they didn’t know everything about me until now, they were doing something wrong.
I used to go to this restaurant a lot for lunch. One day I came in and the waitress said “Hi cbih, your usual?” I left that restaurant and never went back. I do not want familiarity with my goods and services.
Your wet dreams will not come true for me, therefore I’m using DuckDuckGo with ad- and cookieblockers. Good luck greedy Google.
Christ. Time to look for an alternative to GMail it seems. Going to be a right pain to transition but if this is where they are going then there’s really no choice. Sigh.
MF doesn’t even know my name or where I am,get out of here
I am ok with this if they also introduce a wipe my recent history over the last ‘xyz’ period’ to the mix.
Obviously for me that means shifting away from Google entirely.
Does it know I’d sooner shit into my hands and clap than use it? Because it should.
From my eyes it’s obvious some form of chat control is coming. All the AI assistants on your phones, search engines, etc. They aren’t useful I literally swirched off AI overview cos the information was regularly bullshit. Never been a better time to degoogle
How about it gives me the results I asked for instead of trying to guess the hidden message in my very specific ask. That would be great if the search actually was useful instead of full of shit I didn’t ask for because I glanced at an ad on some random page before.
Jokes on you, Google, soon all your services will be banned in my country
Imagine google software having access to your own emails while authenticated.
What a disaster.
I don’t want to be able to see any of my emails tyvm. Throw them in the fire.
Could they maybe start by knowing everything about the question I’ve asked??..
Lol, its hardly right more times than it’s wrong, but sure Google you’re gonna know me sooooo well.
You’re daft if you put personal stuff in a search. I always prefix it with “asking for a friend….” 😉
It is probably the worst AI service I’ve used, and that says something on its own.
Doesn’t Google already know everything about me? I have to add more words because of the stupid word count requirement.
Fine, I’ll never know though because I’m just blocking that shit from my search. It’ll be just like a nosy relative who keeps gossiping about me behind my back.
Are they so detach from reality they think saying that is a positive??
We went too far from the old agreement “we collect some few data, you get a free product”
Why all it seems to be converging to a distopian reality? Like Pull up if this person Said anything agains the status quo and let the AI court rule. This is scary….
Time to make a new google account totally disassociate with who I am. I shall be Randy Thompkins III
Jokes on them i don’t use gmail (i have one but it’s
empty and i used a fake name etc…) nor drive, nor the AI search mode.
And that’s why I use Ecosia.
And why I’m trying to find an American made cell phone I can install an operating system I choose into it. No more Google sourced Android!
These news seem stale… For a while there has already been an opt-in (actually opt-out as I think the usual sneaky bastards enabled it by default) for smart & personalised Google AI features coming from scanning your Google calendar, Gmail, Drive etc etc.
It would be great if Google search started by knowing me well enough that it didn’t assume any common noun I look up was automatically the obscure football club, Icelandic rapper, or energy drink that has co-opted that word.
If it can distinguish between my own searches and the weird stuff I look up for work, that might be impressive.
What I don’t understand is why they would just come out and *say* this like it’s a good thing or like we’ll even mistakenly think it is.
I hope more and more people understand all of this as a threat and not a promise. We don’t need shit that monitors us constantly and apparently ‘predicts’ what we’ll do. We need new technology to make our societies work better.
They’ve known everything about you for decades. The real challenge is figuring out how to use that to your advantage without handing over all that “private data.” And honestly, it’s not that hard nowadays with the tools we’ve got.
Is that why there search functionality has become trash? They want to know more about me thus requires more engagement and knowing bing is a joke just made there product worse to profit more? I switched to using brave browser and see what is on reddit about my search. After all its probably used for there AI anyway so i want the source of the delusional ideas.
I’d settle for just giving links to relevant websites again. that seemed to work really well.
So now I’m going to get ads for things I already bought. Great.
Is there any plugin to chrome which filter out AI results?
Knowing someone without even having a trace to the name, address and whatnot. And by the questions asked, that will be a hard guess who that person would be in the slightest.
Wow, this is a really fantastic advertisment for duckduckgo
I would prefer Google to fall behind at this point. I think it’s largely down to them that virtually everything we see on the internet is motivated by and driven towards showing ads. For many, many years the quality and potential of “the information age” has been severely diluted and polluted with content that is crafted for the sole purpose of garnering a click in order to display an ad. And ye just sounds like they want to use AI to do more of that. So if someone could introduce a better paradigm I’d love that.
this should be opt-in. like, legally…wtf, who wants this?
They really think this is a flex. Thank God I switched to alternative solutions 4 years ago.
This is why I stopped using Gmail except for the stuff I don’t care about (noting important), and have switched off using Chrome. Free products are never free when you’re the product…
But how can I learn new stuff if results are biased towards me?
ill be happy to get my .0001 $ from the class action lawsuit when it leaks its whole database to any one who asks it though a good prompt
If this isn’t the most red flag of red flags I don’t know what is.
I stopped using Google like… a year ago? Haven’t regretted it yet.
Better stop searching how to dispose of large quantities of animal carcasses.