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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.

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[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Hahahahhshahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahaha.

Sincerely,

Tech bros.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months 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.

[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sunflier@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

"oh didn we make it not just an automatic update, but you can't even opt out? Oops! Hee hee don't worry, you'll love it in no time. Which is why we're forcing it on you. You're welcome."

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is it really the people or just a subset of people that use Lemmy, the vast majority of people seemingly don’t care as is evidenced by the sheer number of people using things like social media.

What might be important to use in this echo chamber isn’t reflective of society on the whole.

[–] Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The majority of people eat at McDonalds. It doesn't make it a good idea on your finances or health. Sheep gonna baa.

If you for some reason think that megacorporations and big tech aren't monetizing the literal majority to the fullest extent of every single law they can break while getting away with it, you need to wake the fuck up. Big time. I don't know if this is some psyop from leddit or what but my doors stay closed, my android plays tablet mode with no sim. Thanks tho.