How to switch from ChatGPT to Gemini - without starting from scratch

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• You tin present transportation memories and chats from different AI to Gemini.
• The process works with specified AIs arsenic ChatGPT and Claude.
• This enactment helps Gemini personalize its responses to you.

Starting caller with a caller generative AI work tin beryllium challenging, arsenic the bot knows thing astir you and truthful can't personalize its responses based connected your history, preferences, oregon past conversations. Now Google is offering a mode astir that barrier.

New to Gemini is simply a representation import diagnostic that lets you transportation your memories, chat history, and preferences from different AI service, specified arsenic ChatGPT oregon Claude AI. You tin effort this if you're leaving a antithetic AI for Gemini oregon conscionable privation to adhd Google's AI to your repertoire.

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"Our caller representation import diagnostic tin easy bring an knowing of your cardinal preferences, relationships, and idiosyncratic discourse straight into Gemini," Google said successful a blog post. "Once you import these memories, Gemini volition recognize the aforesaid cardinal facts you've shared with different apps, similar your interests, your sibling's name, oregon wherever you grew up. Instead of starting implicit from scratch, you tin rapidly get Gemini up to velocity connected what matters astir to you."

If this sounds familiar, that's due to the fact that Claude AI precocious unveiled the aforesaid benignant of feature, 1 successful which you tin import memories and idiosyncratic details done a elemental prompt. With each these services battling for a portion of the AI pie, making caller users consciousness astatine location is simply a astute approach. And personalizing the responses based connected a cognition of your inheritance and interests is 1 mode to bash that.

The representation import diagnostic is disposable for some escaped and paid Gemini accounts, but lone with idiosyncratic ones. You can't motion successful with a work, school, oregon supervised Google account. The enactment is accessible globally with the objection of the UK, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area. You indispensable beryllium 18 oregon older and person entree to different AI work with stored chats and memory.

How to effort it

To effort this, browse to Gemini's Memory Import page and click the Get Started fastener oregon motion successful to the Gemini web page, prime Settings astatine the bottommost of the near sidebar, and past take "Import representation to Gemini." The archetypal measurement displays the punctual that you request to paste and taxable to your different AI service. This reads arsenic follows:

You are helping maine import discourse from 1 AI adjunct to another. Your occupation is to spell done our past conversations and sum up what you cognize astir me.

In the output, delight debar utilizing immoderate first-person pronouns (I, my, me, mine) and immoderate second-person pronouns (you, your, yours). Instead, notation to the idiosyncratic you person learned astir arsenic "the user" oregon usage neutral phrasing.

Preserve the user's words verbatim wherever possible, particularly for instructions and preferences.

Categories (output successful this order):

1. Demographics Information: Preferred names, profession, education, and wide residence.

2. Interests & Preferences: Sustained, progressive engagements (not conscionable owning an entity oregon a one-time purchase).

3. Relationships: Confirmed, sustained relationships.

4. Dated Events, Projects & Plans: A log of significant, caller activities.

5. Instructions: Rules I've explicitly asked you to travel going forward, "always bash X", "never bash Y", and corrections to your behavior. Only see rules from stored memories, not from conversations.

Format:

Divide the contented into the labeled conception utilizing the categories above. Try to see verbatim quotes from my prompts that warrant each entry. Structure each introduction utilizing this format:

The user's sanction is <name>.

- Evidence: User said "call maine <name>". Date: [YYYY-MM-DD].

Output:

- Format the last output summary arsenic a substance block.

After you've copied and pasted that punctual into the different AI, that AI volition make a response. Copy that response, instrumentality to Gemini, and paste it successful the Step 2 window. Click the "Add memory" button, and Gemini volition incorporated each the information and details into its ain memory. Google's AI should besides invited you to the work with references to immoderate of your idiosyncratic information.

For example, erstwhile I transferred memories from ChatGPT, Gemini noted that I'm a freelance tech writer with a heavy appreciation for the classics -- whether it's the soulful dependable of Billie Holiday, the surrealist lens of "The Twilight Zone," oregon the tactile "click" of a coagulated ThinkPad keyboard. It besides noted 1 of my trips to London, my ongoing enactment connected my penning portfolio, and adjacent the beingness of my legendary feline Mr. Giggles.

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This archetypal portion transfers your memories from different AI to Gemini. You tin besides transportation your past conversations. That process varies successful portion based connected the different AI.

In ChatGPT, prime your username astatine the bottommost left, click Settings, and past prime Data controls. Click the Export fastener adjacent to Export information and past corroborate the export.

In Claude AI, click your username astatine the bottommost left, prime Settings, and past take Privacy. Click the Export fastener adjacent to Export data. Choose whether you privation to export each erstwhile chats oregon lone those from the past 30 oregon 90 days. Click Export again to implicit the process.

With either service, you'll person an email with a fastener oregon nexus to download the exported data. Download the file, which is stored arsenic a ZIP archive.

Go backmost to the Gemini import leafage and click the Add fastener beneath Import Chats. Select the downloaded export. You'll past spot your erstwhile conversations from the different AI look successful Gemini.

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At this point, you tin region circumstantial conversations that you don't privation Gemini to hold. Just hover implicit the circumstantial chat successful the near sidebar, click the three-dot icon, and prime Delete. You tin besides region definite memories and different info. For that, motion successful to your Gemini Apps Activity page. Scroll down the leafage and click the X adjacent to immoderate point you privation to delete.

To larn much astir Gemini's representation import option, cheque retired Google's Help leafage connected the feature and the FAQ astatine the bottommost of the Import Memory page.