Google’s Gemini team is apparently sending out emails about an upcoming change to how Gemini interacts with apps on Android devices. The email informs users that, come July 7, 2025, Gemini will be able to “help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off.” Naturally, this has raised some privacy concerns among those who’ve received the email and those using the AI assistant on their Android devices.

  • @Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Dear tech bros,

    We, the people, don’t want to use your AI shit. Please stop shoving it down our throats. Thank you.

    Sincerely,

    -The people

    • @criss_cross@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      The problem is there’s a fair amount of tech CEOs that insist this is the future and everyone needs to hop on which between the hype train, the amount of software peeps out of a job because of layoffs and the amount of snake oils salesmen out of a job because this eats google’s lunch this bubble is just ballooning. You have a lot of people hitching on this bandwagon hoping to sell shovels to the next gold rush.

      And for awhile everything is just gonna get shittier.

    • @Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      413 hours ago

      But the AI people that the tech bros can now create outnumber real people by ♾️:1. The opinions of real people have ceased to matter even the tiny amount that they once did. So open wide and try not to gag.

      • @Sunflier@lemmy.world
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        814 hours ago

        The companies keep preloading it on new tech, updating old tech so its there, preventing the option from disabling it from even being there, and disabling tech that can’t use it.

        This. Shit. Can. Fuck. All. The. Way. Off!