GoKawiilIf you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve used the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or some other AI chatbot. People continue to use them for day-to-day help with writing, generating images and for vibe coding apps and games. And that’s not even talking about the capabilities of agentic AI.
However, to get the best results, AI chatbots tend to need more context and information from you — some of which may be personal information — to complete the task. This data is stored on the chatbot’s parent company’s servers, such as OpenAI’s and Google’s, and can be used to train AI models. If you’re using a chatbot for something sensitive, like personal health, you might not want that info to be regurgitated to someone else asking a similar question.
By default, many chatbots will use your data to train their AI models, but most allow you to turn this option off. If you want to take back your data and even go as far as to delete it, we have a few steps to help you get the job done.
Gemini
You’ll need to turn off a few settings in your Google account and in Gemini to prevent your data from being used to train AI models.
Go to myactivity.google.com.
Click Web & App Activity and turn it off.
Turning off Web & App Activity will prevent your new searches, location and other data from being recorded to your Google account and used for AI training. However, turning this off does not delete the existing activity already on your account. You’ll still need to click the delete button on the same page and select to delete your data from either all time or your specified range.
Gemini
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