Unveiling Google's AI: The Data Dilemma

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1:26Jayden Schafer:Google and Gemini, it's impossible to miss the entire fact that maybe Google search. And when I say Google search, maybe that's just the Gemini AI responses are going to get better because of how much data they are now collecting on you through these different AI mediums because they have access to all of these different tools like your docs and your Gmail and your YouTube history that as AI is getting more infused into things, they're sort of consolidating a lot more of your data in a way that maybe wasn't happening before. So if you want to have your business rank inside of the new Gemini search results, though, I think a really important thing to do is to be able to figure out how to do that.

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2:26Jayden Schafer:Jamie, tell us about you're saying you're recently reading up on an absolutely mind blowing story about just how much data Google is currently collecting on us. We'll talk about how this can make it better and why this is concerning. But tell us about the story.

2:38Jamie McCauley:Yeah. So there's this guy I follow on Instagram. He's big into just trying out different AI things, AI image generation, video generation, things like that. And he didn't experiment. He uploaded a picture of his face and his name inside of Nano Banana 2. So all he did is upload those two things and said, please generate an ID for me, like a fake ID. And so it guessed his nationality, his age, color of his official Albanian government ID without me specifying any of it. Let me emphasize, it knew I'm Albanian without me telling it. It added the official watermark too. Crazy. I believe Nano Banana searches Google to pull all this information and it used it through Enhancer as an API provider.

3:24Jamie McCauley:So there's no way for it to know anything about me. We're stepping into an era where AI is recognizing, it's profiling, it's connecting dots that most of us never gave permission to connect. Wondering where we go from here. So I just think that's a crazy story about how.

3:38Jayden Schafer:Oh my gosh.

3:39Jamie McCauley:Yeah, I mean, what are your thoughts on that, Jaden?

3:40Jayden Schafer:That's absolutely amazing. I mean, you can imagine how that would happen. And the AI is just like, oh, I have to like generate an image. Well, how do I make the ID look realistic? Oh, let me just search up all the information about that person and pull it all together. I mean, the image of the ID there looks super, super realistic. It also looks like a debit card. I don't know if Albanian IDs actually have a chip like that embedded like a credit card. Or maybe that was just a funny thing with Nano Banana. I mean, it pulled all the information. So I think this illustrates the point, which is that Google is collecting and Gemini is collecting and has access to way more data about you than you know.

4:11Jayden Schafer:and you know the question is like oh well how did it know his you know his birthday for example well I mean technically you and I'm not saying this is where you they get the data from but like you've given your birthday to Google when you sign up for like any of the Google services Gmail YouTube like anything else so technically it could be there maybe they went and found it on a website or a forum or blog or like somewhere else but regardless Google and Gemini either can get access to or have access already to so much of your personal data the finding out that he was Albanian I think is really crazy.

4:40Jayden Schafer:But to be fair, like you can look at a picture and probably these AI image models could do a pretty good job of determining what your nationality was to some degree, right? Like, I think for myself, I went to school in Hawaii and at Hawaii growing up, or sorry, Hawaii, when I was going to school, there was like tons of different nationalities. Basically, it's a school, I went to BYU Hawaii, and they it's a school that has, it's like all of Asia Pacific, It brings like islanders from the South Pacific, like all sorts of places to to one place. And I'm sure I don't know, people can get mad at me all they want for this.

5:15Jayden Schafer:When I first got there, it was very difficult for me to identify between different nationalities of like of Asian culture, Asian people. Right. So like Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese, Mongolian, like if for me, it was very difficult. I hadn't been grown up around a lot of them. And to me, I just thought they all looked roughly the same. By the end of my school, I could just walk up to someone and look at them and just just by looking at them be like, oh, they're definitely Japanese. They're definitely Korean. They're definitely from Mongolia or China or Taiwan. And so I think what's interesting here is AI is like, we have the capability, obviously, of doing that to some degree, but the AI is way more capable than us, right?

5:50Jayden Schafer:It sees millions of pictures of people. It can just, I mean, obviously, you can have some crazy exception where I go and move to China and my wife and I have some, you know, a child in China that is technically Chinese, but like looks just like me and it's not going to find that, right? There's crazy exceptions. But I think for the most part, it can tell a lot about you through facial recognition. It can pull a lot of this data about you. And I think it's way more advanced than any human. So it is an interesting point when it comes to data collection and being able to target people, sell them things, know what types of things that they're interested in buying.

6:22Jayden Schafer:It's got a lot of data. And that is a pretty valuable resource, but also a little bit scary.

6:26Jamie McCauley:Yeah. I mean, I think there's definitely usefulness to this, especially when you do ask it a question, it can take into account all of the things it knows about you and give you an answer that's catered to exactly who you are, which can be very helpful in some cases. But where it gets scary is if you think about Google and all the different things that it knows about you. Like if it's connected to, Gemini is now connected to your Gmail, your calendar, your drive. I just bought a new TV that has Google TV on it. It's a Google smart TV. So I'm sure you know what TV shows I watch, what TV shows my kids watch.

7:00Jamie McCauley:There's a ton of information that's, if you think about it, it's kind of scary. And so, yeah, is this going to be a privacy concern moving forward? Or is it already? Is it too late? I mean, what are your thoughts, Jaden?

7:12Jayden Schafer:Okay, so there's a recent podcast interview on the Limitless podcast. And Robbie Stein, who's the VP of product for Google search, was talking about this kind of AI trend. And he was saying that Google's AI tends to get more questions that are advice seeking for users that are looking for recommendations. And because of those types of questions, they're more likely to benefit from like, like Google can give a better response if they have more data about you, right? If you're asking for recommendation, you know, like, let's say I'm like, hey, what are the best things to do in Honolulu? Because I'm here today.

7:45Jayden Schafer:It could give me a way better response if it's like, what's my age? What kinds of things am I interested in? Do I have kids with me? Like all of that's going to play into the best things to do because there's 100 things to do if it's going to give me recommendations and wants to make them personalized. So because of that, they want to make they want to get as much data as they can and make more personalized. Here's a quote that Robbie was or was was saying about this. He says, we think there's a huge opportunity for our I for our AI to know you better and then be uniquely helpful because of that knowledge.

8:14Jayden Schafer:And one of the things we talk about at Google Developer Conference IO was how AI can get a better understanding of you through connected services like Gmail. So he goes on to outline this a little bit, but it I mean, it makes a lot of sense from Google's perspective. their product does get better, the more personalized it becomes. But in order to be more personalized, they have to get a lot more personal data on you. And they do that. Now, the interesting thing that he has, I don't want to say admitted, like it's a secret because he's publicly talking about it. And I think it's kind of obvious that Google is like, hey, look, we want to give you a better, better, a better experience.

8:46Jayden Schafer:This is how we're doing it. They are pulling data from your Gmail, from your docs, from your YouTube, from your history, like anywhere they can get it. it's kind of interesting because I feel like in the past, there was this kind of feeling and I don't know if it was real or not. Maybe Google was just putting off like putting on airs or whatever. But they were like, don't worry, you're you know, like we have ads inside of Gmail, but we don't actually read your emails to serve you ads or it's like, it's an automated system. And I don't know, like they had all these things where they tried to make you feel like your your Gmail wasn't being like read by somebody.

9:17Jayden Schafer:Because I remember, I remember that Microsoft had this big marketing campaign, maybe like 15 years ago, which was called Don't Get Scroogled. And it was like saying that Google is taking all your data through your Gmail and you should use Hotmail instead if you didn't want to get scroogled because the big Gmail man was like reading all it was like this guy and he was like opening your mail and like reading it and stuff. Anyways, so they've always had like that kind of like bad brand perception they're fighting against. And so it feels like we've now come to a point where they have fully embraced the fact that they do have access to all of your data and it makes their their results better for their ai model and so it's they're just like yeah we're building a giant consolidated puddle of all of your data database of all your data and it's going to give you great results some people love that but like you mentioned some people are concerned about that i guess where do you fall on that on that uh debate jamie

10:06Jamie McCauley:i mean it's definitely a concern i mean i think at this point for me it's too late but um what's interesting is i feel like um when it comes to like knowing about you i feel like and admittedly, I don't use Gemini that much, but I feel like ChatGPT does a better job personalizing responses to me with what it knows about me than Google does at this point. But maybe that'll change in the future. But you would think with Google having these capabilities that they would try to work in the personalization more, but I just feel like they don't that much. Would you agree or disagree?

10:38Jayden Schafer:Yeah, I think I'd agree with you there. And I will say one thing that is interesting talking about all of this is that that recently some people were saying basically that it's definitely more useful. You know, they said this, that is, it is a very much the vision of building something that can be really knowledgeable for you specifically. But of course, yeah, there is the risk that all of your data gets pulled into that. Is Google going to leak your data? I think that's less likely. But does Google, I don't know, share it with the government or share it with parties you wouldn't want? Like, there's definitely there's definitely possibilities there and some people embrace giving all their data to the government and some people don't love that I for one don't like the feeling but I also think it's like too late and there's nothing I can really do also I'm pretty sure like every government agency has a profile on me anyways I was recently talking to someone I know that was like they have a job in the government and I've known them my whole life and they were telling me that when they had to apply for their job, they had to give a list of like basically anyone they've known their entire life growing up, what their middle name was, what their address was.

11:49Jayden Schafer:So I apologize. I have given your address to the FBI and your middle name. I'm like, oh, cool. But like, do you know what I mean? There is nothing I can do about it. It's just it's all out of I don't know, in my opinion, it's all over our hands. The FBI has already got a file on me. So, you know, whatever. I'm sure they probably have it on all of you that are listening as well. So don't feel to smug either. One thing that I will say that's interesting, Google does let you control the apps that Gemini uses to make its AI more knowledgeable about you specifically, you go to the connected apps section in Gemini settings, and you can turn off, you know, access to Gmail, for example, where Gemini is pulling from Gmail.

12:22Jayden Schafer:At this point, I've given up on my AI overlords. But if you like many people I do know, take privacy and security very seriously, this is something I'd recommend doing or just don't use Gemini or Gmail, probably if you really cared about your privacy a lot. At the end of the day, the results are getting better, but it is taking more of your data and sucking it into Google's hive mind, which is, you know, a little bit concerning, perhaps. And maybe some people are like, well, I love Google. It's a great company. But it's like, okay, but there's like 100 of these other AI companies that might all be trying to do it as well.

12:54Jayden Schafer:So hope you trust all of them. You know what I mean? Yeah, for sure.

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