As part of the wider tech industry’s wider push for AI, whether we want it or not, it seems that Google’s Gemini AI service is now reading private Drive documents without express user permission, per a report from Kevin Bankster on Twitter embedded below. While Bankster goes on to discuss reasons why this may be glitched for users like him in particular, the utter lack of control being given over his sensitive, private information is unacceptable for a company of Google’s stature —and does not bode well for future privacy concerns amongst AI’s often-forced rollout.

  • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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    425 months ago

    If you care, you stopped using Googles shit a long time ago.

    Hopefully articles like this lead to more people caring.

    • Guadin
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      75 months ago

      I’m so glad I ditched those services long time ago. Reading this would fuck with my mind if I had some sensitive documents stored in Google Drive.

  • @[email protected]
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    5 months ago

    Dropbox did the same thing! Fortunately, all I had was backups of photos from 2010 and it was easy to purge.

    I’m expecting more cloud storage to move in that direction. And soon, everyone either find a privacy focused cloud storage or roll their own backup solutions.

    • @ceiphas
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      75 months ago

      Proud owner of my own nextcloud instance

      • mesamune
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        35 months ago

        Same it’s pretty great.

  • @raspberriesareyummy
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    85 months ago

    Don’t upload your “sensitive, private information” to “other people’s computers”, dipshit.