I NEVER Turned on personalize chats and I found it toggled today
the thought of google going through my google photos and drive to find all my personal and sensitive information over a period of 10+ years disgusts me badly. I use gemini for ai chats for work. It asks me often "Do you want to turn on personalization?" I always explicitly hit no, because the thought of the ai getting access to, for example, pictures of my wife, disturbs me greatly.
Today I was clicking in to do a 'deep research' prompt, and I found that the "peresonalize this chat" had been checked.
I would NEVER accept that terms. Now Google ai has gone through all my photos and history hasn't it, and it knows everything about me? I was explicitly discussing it not to do that. This feels extremely severely uncomfortable and may lead me to an extremely depressed mindset, knowing that all my data is effectively leaked as ai goes through all my pics and experiences and everything that has been in my account for years.
When I started using Gemini, it told me explicitly it wouldn't personalize unless I asked it to, meaning it wouldn't get access to my photos. I NEVER allowed it to personalize a chat ever. So, two questions:
Did Google change something so that everyone's personal data was now trained on gemini if you use gemini ai, such as your photos including sensitive photos or videos like for example sex with significant other
Did Google modify whatever accounts they want to enable personalization because they want to, and they don't need to ask permission for us to enable that?
Because I swear on everything I would NEVER give the ai personallization access and just used it for work. But now I see it is enabled on my account (only I use my account), so I want to know what happened. This is extremely disturbing to me and I believev this if its a widespread problem could cause a lot of harm to the community. Because people should need to consent to give the ai access to your historical data going back 10+ years -- I explicitly NEVER allowed access and now I see it says "personalize this chat: YES" when I was clicking in to do a 'deep research' prompt. I need to know what happened because that will determine what actions I plan on taking next.