Google's chatbot Gemini will now paint a personalized portrait of you, drawing on your Gmail, your YouTube watch history, your Search queries, and actual photos of you from Google Photos. You have to opt in. The data was already there. It was always going to be there.
Credit where it's due: the likeness is uncanny. Mine nailed the posture of a man who has typed "is it normal to" into a search bar at 2 a.m. and then deleted the rest. Then I remembered a machine had to read all of that to draw me, and I closed the tab.
The feature is free. The portrait is flattering. The eyes know things my mother doesn't. Google calls this Personal Intelligence. I'd have gone with something shorter. I won't be checking the follow-up.
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Based on the original article "Gemini's personalized AI image generation is now free for US users".
