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Gemini in Chrome can now see exactly what you’re looking at on screen (tech.yahoo.com)
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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

The headline seems a little inflammatory. It requires the user to explicitly select a region to share.

Google is making Gemini a lot more aware of what's happening inside Chrome. The company has started rolling out a new "Select from screen" feature that lets users highlight specific text or images from a webpage and send them directly to Gemini, making conversations with the AI assistant far more contextual.

[–] plz1@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fact that it can do it in the first place means it can do it at all. Just because they require the selection now, doesn't mean they aren't harvesting telemetry 24/7, and won't "accidentally" enable this feature later.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just lie to you it’s not on, they have zero reason to not run this 24/7 they will not be caught

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

they will not be caught

They would get caught tho, there's always some turbo nerd that has a network monitor up and will notice the traffic being sent out. I do it sometimes when I actually have to use chrome, but that's just my growing distrust of Google.

Now, whether or not they face repercussions is another story.

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