Hey everyone, I know it's going to be a busy day for a lot of people, but Google enrolled everyone over 18 into their AI program automatically.

If you have a google account, first go to https://gemini.google.com/extensions and turn everything off.

Then you need to go to https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini and turn off all Gemini activity tracking. You do have to do them in that order to make sure it works.

Honestly, I'm not sure how long this will last, but this should keep Gemini off your projects for a bit.

I saw this over on bluesky and figured it would be good to spread on here. It only takes a few minutes to do.

Edit: links now work again

There is exactly zero chance this shit will fly in the EU.

I already had everything turned off anyway...Turns out past me made sure that Gemini couldn't invade my life!

Uuuugghhghh. Must degoogle… faster!

Alternatively, first save your data, delete it in account and then delete the account.

Thanks, fyi for me I had to go to: https://gemini.google.com/apps for the first link.

So what you're saying is, clear out all of your documents and replace it with the most garbage fanfic gibberish you can find.

Important safety tip.

Thanks, Ray.

I agree with deleting forced installations. If I was presented with the option and chose yes, is there something detrimental about installing or using Gemini? I haven't used AI consciously yet but that is all I read about lately.

I guess they learned nothing from Google Buzz.

Thanks. I just turned it all off.

What does that even mean? Did they integrate Gemini to all their core products?

That said, I use Gemini occasionally, and it seems useful to me, although I still take the information it generates with caution, and I prefer to read documentation for whatever I want to do, because I don't want to blindly follow what LLM's generate (that's just asking for problems).