Gemini 会用付费订阅用户的聊天记录训练模型，需手动关闭 Keep Activity 才能退出

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Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts) 96 points by jameslk2 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 33 comments If you have a personal Google AI subscription, all your saved chat history in Gemini can be used for training and there is no way to opt out unless you turn off chat history or use temporary chat sessions. These chat transcripts may even be read by human reviewers. Although Google claims to disconnect them from your account when human-reviewed, they explicitly warn not to enter confidential information. https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/16836988 “[Gemini app activity] is used to improve Google services for everyone, including by training generative AI models, if your Keep Activity setting is on.“ https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#human_review “A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers” https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#pn_retain_data “Chats reviewed by human reviewers [...] are not deleted when you delete your activity. Instead, they are retained for up to three years.” https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#pn_data_usage “Please don’t enter confidential information that you wouldn’t want a reviewer to see or Google to use to improve our services, including machine-learning technologies.” To disable their training on your chat sessions, you need to turn off “Keep Activity” in Gemini’s settings. Turning that off means you’ll lose any chat sessions after 72 hours. I learned this too late, thinking that having a paid subscription = not being turned into the product. Apparently paying is not enough. Thank you to this user on HN for mentioning in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50355424 help viraptor33 minutes ago | next[–] I don't trust any of the providers, but at the same time I think you're reading into the terms too much for wrong reasons. Yes, you have to opt out. But: > A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers This is expected these days for threads which may make the provider liable. Just look at the recent death case due to bad GPT medication recommendation. > Chats reviewed by human reviewers [...] are not deleted when you delete your activity. Instead, they are retained for up to three years. They're being retained for legal purposes. > Please don’t enter confidential information... This is so they don't accidentally preserve it for review, but also they don't want you to share private info that the agent will post somewhere without an explicit approval. Those points make sense for them, regardless what other T&C rules apply. reply jameslk20 minutes ago | parent | next[–] > This is expected these days for threads which may make the provider liable. [...] > They're being retained for legal purposes. It’s a significantly wider usage than that: A subset of chats are reviewed by human reviewers (including Google’s trained service providers) to help improve Google services. These include Gemini models, other generative AI models that power Gemini Apps, and technologies that help reduce unintended activations. Reviewers assess if Gemini Apps’ responses were low-quality, inaccurate, or harmful. They also suggest better responses. We use their suggestions to help our models respond better in the future. That’s in addition to the liability language: Chats are also reviewed to keep Gemini safe and secure for everyone and to address violations of the Google Terms of Service, including the Generative AI Prohibited Use Policy. Reviewed chats are retained for up to three years. https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en#huma... reply richrichardsson30 minutes ago | prev | next[–] What's worse is if you have a Pixel phone then Gemini is completely useless without enabling this setting. I had it switched off: "Hey Google, remind me at 7pm " "OK, your reminder is set for 7pm" Next day: "Hey Google, why didn't you remind me at 7pm" "I can't do anything with your phone unless you enable chat history." WTAF! reply 233mhz1 hour ago | prev | next[–] imho you should act as if everything you type, not even send, is stored forever and might be used for training whenever they decide to retro actively change their TOS, no matter how much money you pay reply usern2026072052 minutes ago | parent | next[–] every thing you read, every keycap you press. Every mail you read, every call you make, permanently recording you reply frereubu35 minutes ago | root | parent | next[–] You'll never play that at a wedding. reply nicce47 minutes ago | parent | prev | next[–] OpenAI chat sends everything when you type. Better edit the prompt elsewhere. reply finger28 minutes ago | root | parent | next[–] Even before pressing enter? What would be the reason for that? Faster responses? reply nicce27 minutes ago | root | parent | next[–] Predicting autocomplete for the prompt. They do suggest the remaining of the prompt. Not sure if that is the main purpose. reply jwr11 minutes ago | prev | next[–] I am not sure why anyone expected anything different from Google. This is a company that lives and thrives on user data and tracking users. Users are the material that is being run through this entire huge ad-selling machine. reply fweimer38 minutes ago | prev | next[–] Even if they don't train on your content, Google reserves the right to use it for improving their services in other ways: “ This license is for the limited purpose of operating the services, which means allowing the services to work as designed and creating new features and functionalities. ” https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en-US#toc-permission The training exclusion has always been a distraction. These service providers have plenty of other uses for your data. reply hosteur3 minutes ago | prev | next[–] Never trust google. reply Haven88015 minutes ago | prev | next[–] This why I advocate Deepseek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen as in hosted directly (send data) to China. Think about it, what can they do worse off than what our own backyard AI can do? There is no privacy advantage in Western AI. It is way more likely ours leak your data to dark web (solid track records for decades) or get law enforcers on you. Meanwhile, am I suppose to be worried, China sending their Ming-like Eastern Bureau to my home in the west? On dark web, aplenty western companies leaks. How frequent the eastern one? reply danelski2 minutes ago | parent | next[–] That’s a take I see often, and it always overblows the direct personal threat while understating the more abstract societal one. A Western AI company might report you for plotting a murder or a mass attack, but that’s not the issue for most people. Mass observation of what society thinks deep down, and manipulating it with that data, is a problem for both, and maybe more so for external actors, since they don’t have even a remote reason to care about your well-being. You’d maybe want to counter with something like 'But Google/Amazon/whoever just wants to sell me stuff!'. What makes you think that Chinese B2C would just pass on that opportunity? reply EbNar16 minutes ago | prev | next[–] This is one of the reason I unsubscribed from Gemini Pro, apart from the fact that the experience with Gemini has been underwhelming. reply frevib33 minutes ago | prev | next[–] If a company can do something that benefits them, and there is no way the customer can find out or prove that, the company will do it. reply croisillon48 minutes ago | prev | next[–] training on "no i don't need google search to nurse me after a breakup, i was just asking what movie has the line she just dumped me" reply realsarm42 minutes ago | prev | next[–] Then people are totally fine puting all sort of private stuff in Notebooklm or Gemini notebook. reply advenn37 minutes ago | prev | next[–] that's why i don't use gemini for anything serious or personal. if you want persistant memory you should enable keep activity, but keeping activity allows google to use your chats. reply icantevenhold1 hour ago | prev | next[–] I assume that everyone does this no matter what they say. Seems like too juicy a target reply 2III745 minutes ago | parent | next[–] Obviously anthropic are doing this. Hence their "don't insult Claude too much" policy. reply whycome38 minutes ago | prev | next[–] It's just keeping track of all the times you were mean reply jbrooks8431 minutes ago | prev | next[–] Every AI trains on the input given to it reply Havoc16 minutes ago | parent | next[–] This is false. eg Gemini enterprise has a note under each chat session explicitly saying it’s not used to improve the models reply Zeruxe24 minutes ago | prev | next[–] Scary! reply wewewedxfgdf1 hour ago | prev | next[–] It might matter if Gemini was good enough to use but its not - I only use ChatGPT and Claude. reply Haven88013 minutes ago | parent | next[–] Their recent Argon is weak as well. But then they promise Carbon going to be world changing. Yeah sure. reply kuboble38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next[–] For daily chat gemini is great. actually even gemma locally is great for a lot of chat purposes. reply StanislavPetrov1 hour ago | prev | next[–] We should all be writing bots that constantly spam all of these so-called AIs with random nonsense to poison the well. reply Aachen1 hour ago | parent | next[–] Ah yes, the poison-the-product-you're-trying-to-use strategy reply r_lee1 hour ago | prev[–] another Google W I guess? gemini really leading the pack over here reply Aachen1 hour ago | parent[–] W I? reply ForHackernews1 hour ago | root | parent[–] "...Google W[in,] I guess..." reply Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact Search: