Just pulled up my tax return in @Google Docs--and unbidden, Gemini summarized it. So...Gemini is automatically ingesting even the private docs I open in Google Docs? WTF, guys. I didn't ask for this. Now I have to go find new settings I was never told about to turn this crap off.
Ford's CEO just said on NPR that the future of profitability for the company is all the data from its 100 million vehicles (and the people in them) they'll be able to monetize. Capitalism & surveillance capitalism are becoming increasingly indistinguishable (and frightening).
Gemini is either hallucinating or this setting is so buried that I can't find it in either my @Google account or Drive settings or Gemini Privacy Hub after searching for 15 minutes. (Pardon my french in the screenshot but felt like expressing anger to the machine...)
It's also rather maddening to know that throwing more Gemini stuff in users' faces that they didn't ask for is one of the main reasons Google is completely blowing its climate goals as discussed just this morn on @NPR.
Thanks to @darakerr for talking with me about the high climate cost of generative AI, Google's reneging on its climate goals, and the real existential crisis facing us on NPR Morning Edition today.
npr.org/2024/07/10/nx-…
...what if I still don't want it looking at my docs unprompted? I didn't *ask* it to summarize my taxes, it just did. It should be up to me whether/which private docs prompt the model.
Particularly with this sort of incident in its track record, Google should be giving us a lot more direct control over what if any of our content gets inputted into its models.
So I asked Gemini to point me to the settings. This is what it said. Tried both, neither works. Gemini is *not* in Apps and services on my dashboard (1st option), and I didn't have a profile pic in the upper right of the Gemini page (2nd). Total fail, @Google. Little help?
I found the setting that’s supposed to keep Gemini out of my docs…and it was already turned off! Yet Gemini is absolutely giving me document summaries. A setting that doesn’t work is even worse than no setting.