Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

Since it is Google Docs, the data is already on Google servers. But yeah, it doesn't exactly instill confidence into the confidentiality of documents on Google Docs.

Generative AI doesn't get any training in use. The explosion in public AI offerings falls into three categories:

1. Saves the company labor by replacing support staff
2. Used to entice users by offering features competitors lack (or as catch-up after competitors have added it for this reason)
3. Because AI is the current hot thing that gets investors excited

To make a good model you need two things:

1. Clean data that is tagged in a way that allows you to grade model performance
2. Lots of it

User data might meet need 2, but it fails at need 1. Running random data through neural networks to make it more exploitable (more accurate interest extraction, etc) makes sense, but training on that data doesn't.

This is clearly demonstrated by Google's search AI, which learned lots of useful info from Reddit but also learned absurd lies with the same weight. Not just overtuned-for-confidence lies, straight up glue-the-cheese-on lies.

Illegal how?

There's a certain level of due-diligence that you can use when you're moving personal information around on the cloud. Hospitals have a legal obligation to keep your medical records secure; Google does not.