Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled
Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled
Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.
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Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.
"The cloud" continues to be someone else's computer. If you put your data up there, it's no longer your data.
39 0 Replyexcept if you put it in a password encrypted archive beforehand. because then nobody has access to it.
5 0 ReplyYa 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.
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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?!
16 0 ReplyLiterally 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.
42 0 ReplyAlso sounds like you can't turn it back off, once it turns itself on.
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How about stop using Google's shit....problem solved.
10 0 ReplySwitch to MEGA already
7 0 Replyno way to turn it off they said yet you can literally go into settings -> app extensions -> uncheck google workspace...
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