How to Lock Down Your Privacy on Bard in One Click

How to Drastically Improve Your Privacy on Google Bard with This One Simple Setting

Google's new AI chatbot Bard has great potential, but some users are concerned about their privacy. Bard's activity tracking feature records your conversations which are reviewed by humans to improve the AI. This understandably makes some uneasy about what personal information is being collected.

Fortunately, there is a simple setting to turn off Bard's activity tracking and analysis of your chats. This prevents your conversations from being recorded or seen by anyone. Here's how to do it:

Go to the clock icon in the top right of the Bard chat screen. This is the Activities menu. Under "Bard activity", select Turn Off. You will see a message confirming activity tracking is now off. As long as you see "Bard Activity is off" on the left sidebar, your chats are completely private.

Turning this setting off does disable some minor Bard features. However, it gives you peace of mind that your conversations remain between you and the AI. Google confirms that your Gmail, Drive and other Workspace data is never accessed to improve Bard, even with activity tracking on.

I'm a heavy Google user for services like Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Search. I was excited to try Bard but very concerned about my privacy. This simple setting put my mind at ease while still letting me test out its AI capabilities.

Bard has a lot of potential but still some issues to improve. With the brains at Google behind it, I'm confident Bard will evolve into a top contender among AI chatbots. But for now, disabling activity tracking gives you the best of both worlds - privacy protection and early access to Google's latest AI.

Hot Take:
Turning off Bard's activity tracking takes just a few clicks but makes a huge difference in protecting your privacy. This lets you securely try out the AI's abilities as Google works to enhance it.