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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)
submitted 3 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 39 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You must host your own data if you don’t want a third party going through it.

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Or encrypt it before uploading

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 months ago

Yes it's true. It's also true that Google should try to be more trustworthy so that normal people can use without getting their data stolen.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

No, you can encryot it. I use cryptomator

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -5 points 3 months ago

And with stuff like Anything LLM you can self host an entirety local multimodal agent in a handful of clicks.