Comment on Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if Alphabet has used data from all these sources all the time.
That’s actually the reason I don’t use gmail except for registering Android, or google calender, or google search except occasionally. I have my youtube account separate from my Android, and I don’t allow any cloud services, like photo or any other storage or sync services.
The power Google can gain from using these things in combination is huge, just like Facebook influenced the 2016 US presidential election, Google/Alphabet could use this for both political and financial gains, that would have been unheard of prior to Internet becoming widely used.
huginn@feddit.it 1 year ago
They explicitly stated that they do not.
They have a lot of rules around data control and privacy that are followed internally because the engineers care to toe the line of public statements.
rebul@kbin.social 1 year ago
I hate to burst your bubble, but Google lies.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-pay-155-million-settlements-over-location-tracking-2023-09-15/
Mac@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Wait wait wait
You’re telling me multinational mega-corporations lie? That can’t be right.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For the last three decades, tech companies have been operating in a “Ask for forgiveness, not permission” mentality.
Microsoft didn’t get such a large monopoly by playing fair. Neither did Google, Amazon, Uber, etc.
They have always said one thing, the courts found it to be inaccurate, and then they go “Pops” and pay $500 million “cost of doing business” while making 1000+ billion.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except you can have one account to cover all those Google services. Meaning it must be trivial for Alphabet/Google to do the same.
Just because your average engineer isn’t allowed to, doesn’t mean they can’t do it at “special requests”, like law enforcement or “research”.
To put it another way, it’s to much potential power to entrust with a single company.