Model awareness of 'environmental' data

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Hello!

I don’t know if this is a model issue or AI Studio behaviour, but recently I’ve noticed that chatting with Gemini-3 in Ai-Studio includes model’s knowledge about the current date and time, and maybe some other actual, ‘environmental’ data.

Is this happening in the model processing engine itself? Is this a kind of ‘agentic prompt’ that’s injected by AI Studio environment? What data exactly is included in it? and is there a way to control/disable it?

Many thanks!

I really hope for an official/authorative answer about this.

Really appreciated!

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Google AI studio gives wrong date. Did anyone faced the issue. For example it says year as 2024 for this year which is 2026
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Hi @Ai_Dev , Welcome to forum!!!

All content generation requests are handled through endpoints such as generateContent or streamGenerateContent. These endpoints use a structured contents array to represent conversation turns between the user and the model. For further details, please refer to the documentation

Thanks.

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Thanks for looking into this topic.

Found this page:

Generating content | Gemini API | Google AI for Developers

Can’t see there the content of a ‘context’ array that is automatically added to the request (other than ‘system instructions’ and ‘system config’).

Would you please elaborate more about that added content, and if there is a way for a ‘sterile’ call to the model (prompt+context only)?

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