Google would prepare a child’s mode for Gemini on Android. The AI would allow in particular to help homework, tell stories or answer questions, all with more restrictions and protections.
Since the race for artificial intelligence at the beginning of 2022 with the launch of Chatgpt, Google has been trying to integrate Gemini, his everything chatbot, absolutely all his services: in Google Messages, in Google Maps, in Gmail, in Chrome, in Translation … But there is a target that the company has not yet managed to reach: children. But our colleagues fromAndroid Authority Observed the code in the APK of the latest version of the Google application for Android (16.12.39) and discovered that Google is working on the development of a child mode for its gemini.
Google Gemini: an AI to help do homework
According to the first observations, the new children’s mode will include the arrival of a dedicated home screen, as well as functions to create stories and tell them thanks to the voice assistant, answer questions and get help for homework. If Gemini is already able to carry out all these actions, Android Authority thinks that the mode would predict “Priest content policies and default protections”especially with much more limited functions and the censorship of certain content.
The way Google would plan to offer this version of Gemini is not yet very clear, but one can imagine that it would be linked to children’s accounts attached to that of an adult, for example via the Family Link system. The fact remains that this is a risky bet for Google, because the AI does not have a good reputation with the youngest. We think in particular of the controversies around Snapchat My AI, which gave dangerous advice to adolescents, or Character.ia, the AI which allows to discuss with the people or characters of his choice and turned out to have heavy consequences on the mental health of young people. And that is without counting the question of data collection, of which these AI are very fond of …