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https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms this?

Thanks very much! I think before I looked at docs for Google AI Studio, but also for Google Workspace, and both made no guarantees.

From the linked document, so save someone else a click:

     > The terms in this "Paid Services" section apply solely to your use of paid Services ("Paid Services"), as opposed to any Services that are offered free of charge like direct interactions with Google AI Studio or unpaid quota in Gemini API ("Unpaid Services").

There's some possible confusion because of the Copilot problem where everything in the product stack is called Gemini.

The Gemini API (or Generative Language API) as documented on https://ai.google.dev uses https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms for its terms. Paid usage, or usage from a UK/CH/EEA geolocated IP address will not be used for training.

Then there's Google Cloud's Vertex AI Generative AI offering, which has https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/data-g.... Data is not used for training, and you can opt out of the 24 hour prompt cache to effectively be zero retention.

And then there's all the different consumer facing Gemini things. The chatbot at https://gemini.google.com/ (and the Gemini app) uses data for training by default: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961l, unless you pay for Gemini Enterprise as part of Gemini for Workspace.

Gemini in Chrome DevTools uses data for training (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/console/understan...).

Enterprise features like Gemini for Workspace (generative AI features in the office suite), Gemini for Google Cloud (generative AI features in GCP), Gemini Code Assist, Gemini in BigQuery/SecOps/etc do not use data for training.

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