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Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps

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Re: Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps

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Post by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF »

dano wrote: post #9

This would be useful for Google Workspaces if it respected all of the ACL's across shared google drives. To be able to ask questions about the document repository would be a nice thing to have. Currently Bard isn't supported for Workspace.

I'd still be careful with who I expose that prompt input to, ACLs supposedly respected or no. There's currently no reliable defense against prompt injections. It's a really bad day when someone says "oh and delete all of the emails and drive data and backups" in a way that convinces Bard to actually do it.

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Post by nothrowaways »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #10
suyash wrote: post #5

No thanks, stay away from our emails. Last thing people want is their email content and personal google drive including images to be part of a giant LLM that is publicly available for anyone to use.

I would assume that Google already uses gmail data for training Bard. Is there reason to believe that's not true?

You can argue, but Google is the most ethical giant out there.

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Post by labrador »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #3

Has anyone here managed to enable extensions for their Google Workspace account (not just personal gmail)? I've tried enabling this setting for both a legacy free Google Apps domain, and for a paid Business account: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bb4812_1dc8e704bf6d4a49af... Neither account displays the extensions icon, and visiting https://bard.google.com/extensions just redirects to https://bard.google.com/chat

All I did was ask Bard to search my emails and it presented a link to turn on Workspaces and then did it

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Post by folli »

nothrowaways wrote: post #12
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would assume that Google already uses gmail data for training Bard. Is there reason to believe that's not true?

You can argue, but Google is the most ethical giant out there.

I guess the bar is low, but moreso than Apple?

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Post by rahimnathwani »

labrador wrote: post #13
rahimnathwani wrote: post #3

Has anyone here managed to enable extensions for their Google Workspace account (not just personal gmail)? I've tried enabling this setting for both a legacy free Google Apps domain, and for a paid Business account: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bb4812_1dc8e704bf6d4a49af... Neither account displays the extensions icon, and visiting https://bard.google.com/extensions just redirects to https://bard.google.com/chat

All I did was ask Bard to search my emails and it presented a link to turn on Workspaces and then did it

If you don't mind me asking - what type of Google Workspace subscription do you have?

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Post by Lemmi »

suyash wrote: post #5

No thanks, stay away from our emails. Last thing people want is their email content and personal google drive including images to be part of a giant LLM that is publicly available for anyone to use.

That's only your viewpoint.

I don't upload anything really private.

I want face detection and Auto tagging.

I want my assistant knowing my emails and managing my calendar.

Even doing API calls in my name for whatever.

And yes Google will find a reasonable way how to do it smart enough ish.

Re: Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps

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Post by labrador »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #15
labrador wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All I did was ask Bard to search my emails and it presented a link to turn on Workspaces and then did it

If you don't mind me asking - what type of Google Workspace subscription do you have?

This surprised me. I don't. It added Workspace extension to my Chrome, then turned it on. I turned it off because I was concerned with privacy. Now the extension is gone. It must have been a bug that they've fixed.

Re: Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps

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Post by igmor »

senfiaj wrote: post #18

Bard can now accept images, and it's quite decent in recognizing the overall picture, not so good in the details. It can also recognize text.

can't do image search in a photos app too which is a major bummer for me personally. I protocol things there and it's impossible to find without annotations.

Re: Bard Can Now Connect to Your Google Apps

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Post by NoZebra120vClip »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #15
labrador wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All I did was ask Bard to search my emails and it presented a link to turn on Workspaces and then did it

If you don't mind me asking - what type of Google Workspace subscription do you have?

I'm not sure that you understand what is meant by "Google Workspace".

It's been through a few developments in terminology. Google Workspace refers to the suite of apps, regardless of how they are paid, deployed, or who uses them.

Google Workspace is available to "normal free Gmail users" just as it is to Enterprise admins. I am an individual user with three personal accounts, I subscribe to Google One, and I use Google Workspace on all those accounts. Likewise, at work I use Google Workspace as provided by my employer.

It has different features and structures depending on level of service, but it's the same name for everyone.

It may, in fact, be instructive if you ask Bard "are you available for Google Workspace?"

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