{"slug": "run-the-ai-studio-deletion-test-to-show-the-chat-isn-t-deleted", "title": "Run the AI Studio deletion test to show the chat isn't deleted", "summary": "A user identified as Bitu79 on Google's AI Studio forum claims that the 'Delete' button in Google AI Studio does not remove chat data from Google's servers, only deleting the JSON file from Google Drive while the chat session and context remain alive. Bitu79 is calling on other users to replicate the test by deleting a prompt, removing the JSON file from Drive, emptying the trash, and then restoring the file using Google's official recovery tool, which they say brings back the prompt and chat context. The user argues that widespread independent reproduction of this test would provide undeniable proof of a systemic GDPR violation by Google.", "body_md": "[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n1\nI’m asking everyone who uses Google AI Studio to help with something important.\n\nI already proved that the “Delete” button in AI Studio **does not delete your chat from Google’s servers**.\n\nIt only removes the JSON file from Google Drive.\n\nThe chat, the session, and the context **all stay alive**.\n\nThis is not a bug.\n\nThis is not an accident.\n\nThis is **intentional behavior**.\n\nBut one person proving it is not enough.\n\nIf **many people** do the same test, Google **cannot deny it**.\n\nSo please:\n\n**help by doing the test and posting a photo of the automatic Google recovery email.**\n\n**Here is a video showing exactly how to do it:**\n\n[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQfNbPCxQw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBQfNbPCxQw)\n\n**How to do the test**\n\n-\nCreate a new prompt in AI Studio.\n\n-\nDelete the prompt in AI Studio.\n\n-\nGo to Google Drive, delete the JSON file, and empty the trash.\n\n-\nWait 5–10 minutes.\n\n-\nRestore the JSON file using Google’s official recovery tool:\n\n**Google Drive Recovery:**\n\n[https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/1716222?hl=hu&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop](https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/1716222?hl=hu&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop)\n\n**What you will see**\n\nThe prompt comes back.\n\nThe chat continues.\n\nThe context is still there.\n\nNothing was deleted from Google’s servers.\n\nThis proves that Google **intentionally keeps your chat**, even after you press Delete.\n\n**Please help: post a photo of the automatic Google recovery email**\n\nAfter you restore the JSON file, Google will **automatically send you an email** confirming the recovery.\n\nPlease take a photo of that email showing:\n\nAnd post it here.\n\nIf many people do this, then:\n\n**I’m asking for help. I can’t do this alone. We need many people.**\n\nThis is not theory.\n\nThis is not debate.\n\nThis is **proof**, and we can only make it undeniable if many people do the test.\n\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n2\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n3\n**Why your participation matters (for your own sake too):**\n\nPlease understand: this isn’t just about my account or my privacy. This is about **your data, your private prompts, and your digital footprint**. If Google’s backend is intentionally retaining my “deleted” data, they are doing the exact same thing to yours.\n\nIn both computer science and law, the highest form of evidence is **independent reproducibility**.\n\nIf I am the only one posting this, Google’s lawyers and PR teams will simply dismiss it as an “isolated glitch,” an “anomaly,” or a “user error.”\n\nBut if 10, 50, or 100 developers from different locations, using different accounts, reproduce the exact same JSON-restoration test and upload the official Google recovery email, it transforms from a single complaint into **undeniable, systemic, mathematical proof of a global GDPR violation**.\n\nDon’t just take my word for it. Break the illusion that we are helpless against these tech giants. Test your own data. See with your own eyes how the “Delete” button is a visual lie designed to pacify you while they keep processing your content in the background.\n\nBy posting your screenshot here, you are helping to build a public, open-source evidentiary record. If we do this together, they cannot silence us, and they cannot hide behind the excuse of a “technical bug.” It’s time to hold them accountable.\n\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n4\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n5\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n7\nThe AI Overview is lying. It claimed that someone in this forum thread “refuted” the delete test. That is false. Nobody in this thread has ever refuted anything, and such a comment never existed. The Overview does not read the forum; it is just an automatic text generator that often produces incorrect, made‑up statements. This time it invented a “refutation” that does not exist. After I pointed this out, it admitted that its information was wrong and confirmed that the test shows exactly what I described: the backend data is not deleted, the chat and the context remain intact, and the “Delete” button does not delete anything. This proves that the entire Overview system is unreliable and produces false claims. **And this is exactly why it is important that people perform the test I asked for — because Google must be held accountable for their broken systems and for keeping user data.**\n\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n9\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n11\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n12\nSince no one has sent any evidence since the post was written — even though I have already reproduced the same bug on my phone, on Android — here is the video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4U6ajKuLRo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4U6ajKuLRo) — it’s completely clear that people are cowards. I don’t need your help, I proved everything on my own. The test works on PC, it works on Android, the ‘Delete’ button lies everywhere, the backend doesn’t delete anything. And even after all this, nobody sends anything. No wonder Google treats people this way. Congratulations to everyone! Have a nice day.\n\n[Bitu79](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Bitu79)\n13", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/run-the-ai-studio-deletion-test-to-show-the-chat-isn-t-deleted", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/please-help-do-the-ai-studio-delete-test-so-we-can-prove-that-google-does-not-delete-the-chat/174376", "published_at": "2026-07-28 00:37:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-28 00:52:17.114491+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-policy", "ai-ethics", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Google", "Google AI Studio", "Google Drive", "Bitu79"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/run-the-ai-studio-deletion-test-to-show-the-chat-isn-t-deleted", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/run-the-ai-studio-deletion-test-to-show-the-chat-isn-t-deleted.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/run-the-ai-studio-deletion-test-to-show-the-chat-isn-t-deleted.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/run-the-ai-studio-deletion-test-to-show-the-chat-isn-t-deleted.jsonld"}}