Feed The Google AI. Starve the old beast, feed the new. Mbas raise gremlins.

ok what phone should I get next

How can we spy on you if you turn it off.

Just goes to show how EULAs are nonensical legalese and as such unenforceable in and by any (sane) court.

I just want to be able to talk to my phone to set reminders and alarms. I used to be able to do this with the assistant. Now it's this invasive AI thing, and I do not have a replacement. :-(

Op please change the title as to not further fuel the misinformation. Arstechnica seems to enjoy burying the actual information 3 paragraphs in where they know nobody will read them and your embellishments aren't helping.

1. There's nothing anywhere that suggests the ai is "remote controlled".

2. Arstechnica suggests that humans have access to the data and as evidence they linked a site saying humans don't have access.

3. Ars seems to want us to think the red rectangles in the image are contradictory. They aren't as Gemini Apps can be individually turned off independent of Gemini Apps Activity (history) and vice versa. The forced 3 day activity storage doesn't enable the apps themselves.

4. Even the author of the article pointed out that it can be turned off

5. Ars cites Tuta's article selectively to make it sound like disabling gemini is either ineffective or complicated. Tuta itself is a privacy focused gmail alternative with vested interest to muddy the waters but their article is still somewhat better written than Ars'

Edit: Title when this comment was written for posterity:

there is a remote controlled ai agent on every google device that can not be turned off

Wrong. There is no AI agent on my Pixel 8 Pro running GrapheneOS.

They must have had an AI write that.

You can turn it off by disabling or uninstalling the app. Not trying to defend google here, but for clarity "whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off" refers to the app not following standard android procedure for killing background processes from how i understand it. So you actually have to fully disable it in the system settings, not just swipe it away.

I have all of these settings off, but it's still summarizing my emails and offering to add it to my calendar because there are no conflicting events.

Can I use an ai to mask my activity?

Is the Pixel 3 old enough that I'm out of range of this bullshit?

So, what this seems to be saying, and what is reflected in the settings screens I can access on devices I have at hand, is that Gemini will still have (limited) functionality hooking jnto certain apps even if you've disabled "Gemini App history".

The app is being pushed through normal updates via Google Play (by your carrier or Google itself). In some cases the app can be uninstalled by the end user through the normal UI, and in other cases it installs as a system app and requires adb to be used to disable and/or uninstall it.

EDIT: FALSE, GOOGLE HAS NOT PUSHED THE APP OUT YET, JUST A SETTINGS PAGE

As always, the most secure way to use android is through a custom locked down ROM like Graphene OS.