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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 9 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 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.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's baffling that over and over and over, every fucking time a corporation does this shit, there's someone willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I like to deal with facts and measured responses instead of being instantly reactionary 🤷

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

Which is fair, but in the context of the day, and of our history, skepticism is appropriate

[–] plz1@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 hours 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 7 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

No, it can definitely read the entire browser window, fill out and click through forms etc etc. i know, I’ve used it.

[–] covert_llm@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

cant tell if serious

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That might be true, but it sounds like like a completely different feature than what the article is discussing. This is talking about a new feature that requires the user to select a specific section of the page in order to make it visible to the I'm LLM.

I am a little confused though, as to why this new feature would be needed if it could already read the entire screen.