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Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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?!

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

Also sounds like you can't turn it back off, once it turns itself on.