A review of Gemini Spark from The Verge:

ยท Bits and Bobs 6/8/26
  • A review of Gemini Spark from The Verge:
    • "On the other hand, I can't shake the deeply creepy feeling I get from the whole thing.
    • What Spark did feels sort of magical, and very invasive.
    • It's weird that Spark is so casually telling me the names and ages of my children, reminding me that it knows where I live, and finding information I know for a fact I've never volunteered to Google.
    • Intellectually, I know that Google knows an incredible amount about me โ€” add up my emails, my calendar, my photos, and my search history, and you've pretty much got me pegged.
    • But seeing Spark treat all that data not as something to be protected, but as something to be mined, just feels bad.
    • This is the trade we're all being asked to make right now.
    • There is a direct correlation between how much of yourself you're willing to share with an AI system and how useful that system can be."

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