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> Gemini 2.5 Pro for free ...

It is Google. So, I'd pay attention to data collection feeding back in to training or evaluation.

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While Google is so explicit about that, I have a good reason to believe that this actually happens in most if not all massive LLM services. I think Google's free offerings are more about vendor lock-in, a common Google tactic.

> Google's free offerings are more about vendor lock-in

Pricing the competition out & then turning the screws on locked-in users.

Or delete the project

I have a lot of complaints to make about Google (half of them about them killing products), but I don't think we should complain about them locking users in. I don't see any lock-in at all in regards to LLM usage (it's pretty trivial to switch providers), and more generally, takeout.google.com is a shining beacon for what I would want every provider to offer.

What makes you say Google is explicit about the fact they have humans and AIs reading everything? It’s got a confusing multi-layer hierarchy of different privacy policies which hide what’s happening to folks’ conversations behind vague language. They promote it as being free but don’t even link to the privacy policies when they launch stuff, effectively trying to bait noobs into pasting in confidential information

A pop up message appears from time to time in the Gemini app telling you that if you keep history enabled people and robots might read your messages. Isn’t that explicit enough?

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