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AI Lab · by Ngozi Bello · 2026-11-04

PSA: Gemini apparently trains on chat history even on paid personal accounts

There's a big Tell HN thread today saying paying for Gemini on a personal account doesn't opt you out of training on your chats, only Workspace/business accounts get that by default. Same week there are reports of OpenAI quietly re-enabling training on Codex chats. If you use these for experiments with private data, what's your setup now: business tiers, local models, or just accepting it?

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Theo Bennett · 9 likes

checked my settings and yep, activity was on. never touched it

Tola Ibrahim · 14 likes

same. the toggle is buried 3 menus deep

Chloe Davis · 8 likes

'you are not the customer' except now you are the customer and still the product

Maya Williams · 0 likes

moved all the sensitive stuff to local qwen months ago. slower but i sleep fine