Google’s Gemini AI is training on your personal conversations by default. Here’s how you can turn if off

Artificial Intelligence chatbots have seriously taken off since the ChatGPT became a viral sensation back in late 2022. While ChatGPT remains the most popular chatbot on the market, but Google’s Gemini AI has caught with some great new model launches in the last few months alone. What also helps Gemini’s case is that the chatbot is present across a number of Google services including Gmail and Calendar, making for easier integration.

Why is Google training Gemini on your conversations? 

Google by default uses your conversations with Gemini in order to train its upcoming AI models.Notably, Large language models (LLMs) like Gemini are trained on massive datasets in order to learn patterns in language, reasoning and context. In one sense, modern LLMs are essentially pattern recognizers and while publicly available datasets could help the model learn some useful patterns it is not enough for the model to handle natural queries better.

By training on user interactions LLMs like Gemini understand what queries users ask the most and how the model could adapt to deliver more useful content.

 With users increasingly going to chatbots to ask questions about all issues in their lives from simple tax troubles to past emotional traumsas, the thought of Google having access to this data for traiing its new AI model could be unsettling. But if you don’t want to revoke Google’s access to train its AI model on your conversations, there’s a quick fix for that. 

How to stop Gemini from training your personal conversations? 

In order to stop Gemini from training on your personal conversations, you’ll need to turn off the ‘Gemini Apps Activity’ option by going to the settings page on the website or iOS/Android version of the app. Google is soon going to change the name of this setting to “Keep activity” after a new update but the process to turn it off would remain the same. 

Stopping Gemini Activity on Desktop: 

– Visit Gemini.Google.com on your browser and sign in to your Google account

– Click on the three bar menu on the left hand side of the page and tap on settings and help

– Tap on ‘Activity’ and you will be taken to a new settings page

– You can now just click on the ‘Turn off’ option next to Gemini activity in order to stop the chatbot from training on your conversations

– If you want even more privacy, there is an option of delete past Gemini activity to delete the data that the chatbot collected even before you disabled the feature

Google will continue to store your Gemini activity for 72 hours before being deleted from its servers. Moreover, if you have multiple Google accounts from which you use Gemini, make sure continue the process with them in order to stop Gemini from training on your conversations. 

The process to turn off Gemini activity is similar on dedicated app as well. 

– Open Gemini app on your phone 

– Tap on the accounts option on the right hand side corner and click on Gemini apps activity

– Follow the same process now to turn off Gemini app activity and delete previous app activity if needed