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submitted 4 months ago by lautan@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

"The cloud" continues to be someone else's computer. If you put your data up there, it's no longer your data.

[-] Cyyy@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

except if you put it in a password encrypted archive beforehand. because then nobody has access to it.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Ya think?

Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/microsoft-is-scanning-the-inside-of-password-protected-zip-files-for-malware/

There are probably more secure methods than a password protected zip file, but just so you know.

[-] Cyyy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

how would they scan the inside of a password protected zip archive? the whole purpose of the password is that nobody can open it without the pw. you can may look at the zip archive self and check the checksum or maybe filenames, but not open and extract the files to check them (images etc). specially not if you maybe even use rar archives who are even more secure and you can protect even filename lists etc.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I'unno, read the article.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 39 points 4 months ago

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

[-] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Or encrypt it before uploading

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

No, you can encryot it. I use cryptomator

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au -5 points 4 months ago

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

[-] LordCrom@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

How about stop using Google's shit....problem solved.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

no way to turn it off they said yet you can literally go into settings -> app extensions -> uncheck google workspace...

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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?!

[-] SteveJobs@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

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

[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 4 months ago

Switch to MEGA already

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