• hotpot8toe@lemmy.world
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    For the people who didn’t read the article. Read this TLDR: When you open a Google Doc. A Gemini sidebar appears, so you can ask questions about the document. Here, it summarized a document without the user asking.

    The article title makes it seem like they are using your files to train AI which no proof exists for that(yet)

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      At least the data is sent to Gemini servers. This alone can be illegal but I’m not sure. What I’m more sure about is that they do use the data to train the models.

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        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.

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            Wouldn’t it be though? No one reads ToS. Most people probably owe google their kidney, their first born child, and their soul. So far as I know, which is admittedly very little, there is nothing that says a company can’t read everything you write if you agree to let them.

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      Yes. Now its documented that Google is violating their terms of service. I’m sure their lawyers will point to the clause that says they can change the terms of service at any time without warning

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    4 months ago

    this reminded me of the Google takeout I requested last week so I could switch to self hosting 👍

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    …Why would you post unencrypted personal information onto the cloud in the first place?

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        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.

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          Yes, I wanted to one-up your disbelief by pretending I use random text boxes to store personal information.

          Maybe one of these days I’ll make a joke that’s funny instead of confusing…

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    This is why anything you upload to the cloud should be encrypted. Or just, yenno, don’t use the cloud