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That's like saying if you don't like ransomware just develop your own.
Brilliant!
Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
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What is the privacy implication of AI training?
Models can easily regurgitate back training data verbatim, so anything private can be in theory accessed by anyone without proper access to that file
This is partly true but less and less every day.
IMO the bigger concern is that this data is not just used to train models. It is stored, completely verbatim, in the training set data. They aren’t pulling from PDFs in realtime during training runs, they’re aggregating all of that text and storing it somewhere. And that somewhere is prone to employees viewing, leakage to the internet, etc.
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#54Only a matter of time before someone extracts something valuable out of googe's models. Bank passwords or crypto keys or something
Glue pizza incident illustrated they're just yolo'ing this
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#55Every single week I have to refuse enabling back up for my pictures on my Google pixel. I refuse it today, next week I open the app and the UI shows the back up option enabled with a button "continue using the app with back up". Somebody took the time to talk down my comment about this being a strategy to give their AI more training data. I continue believing that if they have your data they will use it.
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#56There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer.
That doesn't change anything.
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#57I now feel obligated to cram as much AI-f'n-up crap into my Drive as possible. Come'n get it!
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#58This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, their entire business is our data. I always encrypt anything important I want to backup on the cloud.
But we shouldn't have to, and just because Google is famous for it, it doesn't make it right or acceptable.
Re: Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission
#59Every single week I have to refuse enabling back up for my pictures on my Google pixel. I refuse it today, next week I open the app and the UI shows the back up option enabled with a button "continue using the app with back up". Somebody took the time to talk down my comment about this being a strategy to give their AI more training data. I continue believing that if they have your data they will use it.
I in no way want to absolve Google, but that's the case for so many app permissions on Android. Turn off notifications, and two weeks later the same app your turned off notifications for is once again sending you notifications. It's beyond a joke.
You might have disabled one type of notifications, instead of all types of them. Making sure I disable all types of notification from an app usually works for me. What brand of phone are you using?
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#60Meta commentary but still relevant I think: The author first refers to his source as Kevin Bankston in the article's subtitle. This is also the name shown in the embedded tweet. But the following two references call him Kevin _Bankster_ (which seems like an amusing portmanteau of banker and gangster I guess). Is the author not proofreading his own copy? Are there no editors? If the author can't even keep the name of…
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