Just got an email that stated: ''We've made it easier for Gemini to interact with your device'' ...

[aggiesal]

How scary is that?
Gemini Apps (Ai) will soon be able to help you use your Phone, Messages, WhatsApp & other utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps is on or off.

What could possibly go wrong?

I don't want anyone or anything interacting with my phone, unless your calling me or sending an email or text message.
That all the interacting I want from outside my hands.

[Intractable]

1. I've received multiple texts and emails urging me to try Gemini.

No!

Why?

Google is desperate to get us to use their AI before we get used to another one.

I grew up as a futurist. I loved the idea of intelligent talking computers.

Now, I just want this Brave New World to go away. (I'll bet every generation since the industrial revolution said that.)

[Mossfern]

2. I recently got a new phone - a Pixel

My husband and I were going to an event.
I came downstairs wearing a new dress and asked him if he thought it was more flattering than the one I already had.

My phone answered "I cannot tell you whether your dress is more flattering because I cannot see it."
And then mansplained to me what flattering means and how to achieve it.

Damn! it was funny, but frightening,

[aggiesal]

3. Well, I won't be upgrading to Pixel n/t

[highplainsdem]

4. Here's that page they want you to look at:

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961

[aggiesal]

5. This document I'm sure will be about 100 pages long ...

Like Bill Maher always says ...
I don't know it for at fact, I just know that it's true.

[Clouds Passing]

6. Whenever it comes on, I say "fuck you gemini get lost"

[hunter]

7. I'll keep my old flip phone as long as I can, thank you.

Mostly I use it as a phone.

Sometimes I send and receive texts.

[GenThePerservering]

8. Rooting your phone may help with that

and get rid of this bloatware.

[lindysalsagal]

9. I uninstalled gemini.

[GenThePerservering]

10. PS

• If you don’t want to use these features, you can turn them off in the Apps settings
page.
• If you have already turned these features off, they will remain off.

[aggiesal]

11. My question is ''What features?'' ...

Can you the more explicit?