My assumption would have been that it was default-off, the user didn't know about it at all, then found out about it through this thinking leak.

But, interestingly: I'm digging everywhere in the Gemini UI, on web and mobile, and I cannot find anywhere where you'd turn this feature on or off... on a Workspace account. Does that make a difference? I don't know. Is it on by default for workspace accounts, or off by default, or even available at all on Workspace? No idea.

Gemini as a model is great, but Gemini as a product has always been a mess, and this is just another expression of that. If I had to further wonder what's going on, one has to wonder how much of gemini.google.com is written by Gemini.

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gruez 3 hours ago | parent [-]

>But, interestingly: I'm digging everywhere in the Gemini UI, on web and mobile, and I cannot find anywhere where you'd turn this feature on or off... on a Workspace account. Does that make a difference? I don't know. Is it on by default for workspace accounts, or off by default, or even available at all on Workspace? No idea.

From the support.google.com link above:

>... For now, this feature isn’t available if:

> You’re under 18, or signed in to a work or school Google Account.

> You’re in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom.

	▲	827a 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair. As a lifetime workspace user, essentially never having had a normal google account, I'm very used to it at this point.