1y ago

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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User alleges Gemini AI scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without explicit permission — Google says otherwise

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

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1y ago

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

www.tomshardware.com /tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/gemini-ai-caught-scanning-google-drive-hosted-pdf-files-without-permission-user-complains-feature-cant-be-disabled

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You must host your own data if you don’t want a third party going through it.
- Or encrypt it before uploading
- No, you can encryot it. I use cryptomator
- And with stuff like Anything LLM you can self host an entirety local multimodal agent in a handful of clicks.
"The cloud" continues to be someone else's computer. If you put your data up there, it's no longer your data.
- except if you put it in a password encrypted archive beforehand. because then nobody has access to it.
  
  Ya think?
  Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-is-scanning-the-inside-of-password-protected-zip-files-for-malware/
  There are probably more secure methods than a password protected zip file, but just so you know.
How about stop using Google's shit....problem solved.
no way to turn it off they said yet you can literally go into settings -> app extensions -> uncheck google workspace...
For Bankston, the issue seems localized to Google Drive, and only happens after pressing the Gemini button on at least one document.
Turns out, when you tell it to look at your document, it looks at your document. Who could possibly have known?!
- Literally the next sentence:
  The matching document type (in this case, PDF) will subsequently automatically trigger Google Gemini for all future files of the same type opened within Google Drive.
  So documents you didn't tell it to look at.
  
  Also sounds like you can't turn it back off, once it turns itself on.
Switch to MEGA already

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