Google puts all the meat on the grill with Gemini and we already know that with the permission of users and users, it will access Gmail accounts for a more personalized user experience. But Gemini's expansion does not stay there, Google wants people to use gemini, the better. And that also includes minors.
One of the great challenges of artificial intelligence has to do with privacy: they need large amounts of data to purify them, which implies on the one hand that many IA companies are desperately looking for information in all types of sources (even if they have no rights over it). Without going further, Google takes up everything you find on the internet. But also what we share with chatbots, so Be so important not to provide sensitive information.
Google wants Gemini to reach everyone: children are no exception
It is a good practice for adults, but with creatures, it is even more dangerous. However, this segment is the succulent for Big Tech, serves as an example the Tiktok algorithm and its effect on young people. We had seen lines of code that revealed that Gemini were present in children's tools and suspicions have come true: Google wants to bring gemstones closer to children.
While the New York Times collects, Google wants to launch its chatbot for creatures under 13 years old And do it so imminent. Thus, he began to inform fathers and mothers who use their parental controls via a family tie with an email by warning that, from next week, their sons and daughters can access Gemini applications on their supervisor Android devices.
Teenagers have had access to Gemini since 2023, when Bard and Google were still called, he has already widened the market by winning it on educational accounts last summer. In theory, Google has implemented security measures designed for young users, but it is logical that their parents are thinking twice. However, Google has already argued that Gemini will not use these interactions with minors for training.
The melon to open is in education to cope with AI. Among the recommendations and warnings that Google details in the email is that “Gemini can make mistakes” and that children can find content that they do not want to see “. In this sense, Big Tech recommends fathers and mothers to teach their creatures that criticize Gemini's responses, so that they check potential errors. The question is itself most of the adults we know how to do it. There is nothing more to see how people on Twitter / X use Grok to get out of doubt without questioning much more. If with adults, using AI is a challenge, expecting children to have this capacity is too much.
In the Google EU, that doesn't have it so easy. The old continent is one of the places in the world where citizens are best protected in terms of transparency, confidentiality and data control and the right to be forgotten, as well as a pioneer in AI legislation. In this sense, it should be noted that Chatgpt has already been prohibited in Italy, among other things, due to the lack of moderation to verify users under the age of 13. In fact, in the Gemini FAQ, it seems that to use Google, you must be over 13 years old or the age stipulated in your country (in Europe, it's 14 years)
In Xataka Android | I don't want someone to read my conversations with Gemini, so I changed this adjustment so that Google does not use them to form their AI
In Xataka Android | There is no other application that recommends more than Gemini. Chatgpt remains in the layers with these possibilities that Google gives us
PORTA | Photo by Tati Osintsova in Unclash and Wikimedia
