Gemini AI platform accused of scanning Google Drive files without user permission
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Gemini users may want to up their privacy
    • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      These news articles support my idea that Google doesn’t care re privacy. I’ve been using a Samsung phone, which has Android. Android has permissions re cam, location, 🎙 and others, but I won’t be :o if Google can bypass all the privacy features if it wants my data.

    • circuscritic@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 months ago

      This isn’t a court of law, or the privatized forced mandatory arbitration that has mostly replaced it.

      Out of curiosity, in your view, what has Google done to deserve the benefit of the doubt?

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
        42·
        4 months ago

        That the person who reported it used a ML to try and find the setting to attempt to solve it, did not fill me with confidence of their abilities to manage this. They later admitted that they did have it enabled in some form.

        They also never became specific about how well Gemini interpreted their tax result file. Did it give the proper number verbatim? That’s pretty damming. Did it just reply “You’re not getting a tax return”? That’s just 50/50 odds.

      • QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I would much rather users on here not manipulate titles to make it sound worse than what the actual article is claiming. It’s intentionally misleading.

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
        23·
        4 months ago

        Every entity has the right of benefit of the doubt. Even if they are the worst entity known.

    • Odo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      4 months ago

      Check the URL. The site clearly changed the headline after OP posted.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    32·
    4 months ago

    Frankly I’m surprised its without permission. Throw that shit in the ToS right next to the part about Google having permission to kiss my mom whenever they want - nobody’s going to read it and the TOS for Google drive already allow them to look at user content.

    • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      Of course. There’s a reason Gmail has always been free, and it’s not out of the goodness of their hearts.

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    4 months ago

    This makes a lot of sense. The fuel for AI is data and there is sooo much non public data.

    Google is behind but they have loads of user data, the temptation would be too great for a company that no longer had a “don’t be evil” value.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    This includes paying users? I wonder how that works for doctors offices that have paid subscriptions and maybe store sensitive data on those servers? That would be a stupid idea, of course, but still, a lot of smaller practices don’t really have a good it guy that can help them do things right

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
    English
    93·
    4 months ago

    They should blame the AI, saying it’s going rogue, but without citizenship we can’t prosecute the AI, so we should give them citizenship, and then suddenly we are equals, lol!

  • Hotzilla@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    There are two different ways how this can be implemented. Either data in Google Drive is being used as training material or Gemini is reading the drive data on users request as part of the prompt and not being used as training data.

    Second one is way different, because it does not expose the data to third party. Copilot has been doing this for a year now.

    I assume that is the second way

  • Lucy :3@feddit.orgEnglish
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    3 months ago

    The only thing I use google drive for is backups. Let’s see them doing anything with an encrypted archive.