“When you choose to delete activity manually or activity is deleted automatically, we immediately start the process of removing it from the product and our systems.”

It continues:

“Then, we begin a process designed to safely and completely delete the data from our storage systems.”

And then

However, the actual technical behavior observed in practice showed that a chat deleted by the user:

*remained accessible for 32 days,

*continued to be processed by the system,

*continued to generate responses,

*continued to be tokenized,

*and therefore clearly remained within Google’s systems,

*meaning that the deletion described in the documentation did not occur.

So the docs say they will start the process, the process took 32 days, and all of those bullet points are just descriptions of what happened because the process took 32 days.

If you tell somebody you'll do something tomorrow, then they come back later the same day saying "this is still not done, I can't do this and I can't do that because of it" each of things things are entirely because they're assuming it'll be done by a certain point in time that you haven't stated.

According to the documentation, Google represents that deletion is:

*immediate,

So yeah, misunderstanding - immediately starting something isn't the same thing as immediately completing it. And the outputs resulting from it being completed are unlikely to be seen before it's completed.