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Re:Gemini CLI by TrainedMonkey on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:01PM (#44380772)
Another dimension here is that any "we don't train on your data" is useless without a matching data retention policy which deletes your data. Case and point of 23andMe not selling your data until they decided to change that policy.
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Re:Gemini CLI by Arisaka1 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @04:03PM (#44381313)
I'll go ahead and say that, even if there was a method that deletes your data when you request it, nothing stops them from using that data to train the model up until that point, which is "good enough" for them.
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Re:Gemini CLI by decimalenough on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:54PM (#44381263)
Google offers a user-configurable retention policy for all data.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/10549751

That said, once your data is inside an LLM, you can't really unscramble the omelette.

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Re:Gemini CLI by elictronic on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @04:30PM (#44381541)
Lawsuits and laws seem to work just fine at unscrambling. Once a company has a fiscal interest they seem to change very quickly.
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