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.
except if you put it in a password encrypted archive beforehand. because then nobody has access to it.
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.
Switch to MEGA already
You must host your own data if you don’t want a third party going through it.
Or encrypt it before uploading
