If you're a power user, you should probably be using Gemini through AI studio rather than the "basic user" version. That allows you to set system instructions, temperature, structured output, etc. There's also NotebookLM. Google seems to be trying to make a bunch of side projects based on Gemini and seeing what sticks, and the generic gemini app/webchat is just one of those.
My complaint is that any data within AI Studio can be kept by Google and used for training purposes — even if using the paid tier of the API, as far as I know. Because of that, I end up only using it rarely, when I don’t care about the fate of the data.
Can you elaborate on “paid” ? Because I honestly still have no idea if my usage of AI Studio is used for training purposes.
I have google workspace business standard, which comes with some pro AI features. Eg, Gemini chat clearly shows “Pro”, and says something like “chats in your organization won’t be used for training”.
On AI Studio it’s not clear at all. I do have some version of paid AI services through Google, but no idea if it applies to AI studio. I did create some dummy Google cloud project which allowed me to generate api key, but afaik I still haven’t authorized any billing method.
Thank you for clarifying that. I’ve researched this once again and confirmed that Google treats all AI Studio usage as private if there’s at least one API project with billing enabled in an account.
