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Google Gemini AI, has been beneficial for tech geeks when it comes to generative text and images, with its features and interface evolving with time, working on a similar model like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Meta's Llama. However, artificial technology also comes with its own set of baggage, as recent reports reveal Google Gemini AI has been pouring through private Google Drive files even without due knowledge of users. There are certain theories on how this is happening, but Google is yet to officially clear the air around this massive alarm.
According to updates, a Google spokesperson claimed that the user needed to interact through Google Workspace in order to allow the AI to get access to private files in the first place. The executive also claimed that the data derived from the private files were not stored or used to train the Gemini AI. The users are in primary control of their data and how they want to go about with it, says the Google representative.
How to stop Gemini AI from accessing your Google Drive files?
If these recent reports are to be believed, around which Google is yet to appropriately clear the air, you can stop Gemini AI from combing through your personal Google Drive data in a few ways. For starters, you can take extra care while granting permission to Gemini for data access. You can also review your Google Workspace settings and undo any changes that can let Gemini pour through your data.
Google's AI platform is now known as Gemini, and is a text and multimedia generative AI, that functions similar to ChatGPT or Llama 3.
Has Google Gemini already launched?
Yes, Google Gemini has already been launched and is being used by millions of Google users across the globe in their daily tasks, in order to enhance efficiency.
How is Google Gemini AI accessing private Google Drive files?
According to a BGR report, a Google Gemini AI user was astonished to find that it could summarize the tax returns data from a private pdf file, to which Gemini was not even given access to, by the user. As soon as the user observed this, he went on a spree of discovering theories that could explain how Google's latest AI tool could do this without proper authorization and evade privacy norms.According to updates, a Google spokesperson claimed that the user needed to interact through Google Workspace in order to allow the AI to get access to private files in the first place. The executive also claimed that the data derived from the private files were not stored or used to train the Gemini AI. The users are in primary control of their data and how they want to go about with it, says the Google representative.
How to stop Gemini AI from accessing your Google Drive files?
If these recent reports are to be believed, around which Google is yet to appropriately clear the air, you can stop Gemini AI from combing through your personal Google Drive data in a few ways. For starters, you can take extra care while granting permission to Gemini for data access. You can also review your Google Workspace settings and undo any changes that can let Gemini pour through your data. FAQs:
What is the name of Google's AI platform?Google's AI platform is now known as Gemini, and is a text and multimedia generative AI, that functions similar to ChatGPT or Llama 3.
Has Google Gemini already launched?
Yes, Google Gemini has already been launched and is being used by millions of Google users across the globe in their daily tasks, in order to enhance efficiency.
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