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Is Gemini spying on you?
Hunter Kallay
July 17, 2024
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Appetizer: Gemini access raises privacy questions 🤔
Entrée: YouTube Music rolls out “hum to search” 🎤
Dessert: Tech companies steal YouTube content 🥷
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GEMINI ACCESS RAISES PRIVACY QUESTIONS 🤔
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.
— Kevin Bankston (@KevinBankston)
4:31 PM • Jul 10, 2024
Q: Why did the spy stay in bed all day?
A: He was operating undercover. 🛌
What’s up? Google’s Gemini has been accused of scanning PDF files hosted on Google Drive without user permission.
How did this arise? Senior Advisor on AI Governance, Kevin Bankston, shared on X (above) his experience with Gemini generating summaries from his private tax returns without consent. He also explained his difficulties in disabling this feature on Google Drive. Bankston detailed his challenges in finding the right settings to disable Gemini’s integration, noting that despite attempts, the feature continued to operate. Even the Gemini chatbot couldn’t provide a solution, indicating potential hidden settings or a malfunctioning control. This raised questions about Google’s data handling and privacy settings.
“Our generative AI features are designed to give users choice and keep them in control of their data. Using Gemini in Google Workspace requires a user to proactively enable it, and when they do their content is used in a privacy-preserving manner to generate useful responses to their prompts, but is not otherwise stored without permission.”
YOUTUBE MUSIC ROLLS OUT “HUM TO SEARCH” 🎤
Finally … The “I can’t find the name of this song” struggle is over! 🙌
What’s new? YouTube Music has released an AI-powered sound search feature that allows users to find music by humming, singing, or playing it.
How does it work? To use “sound search,” users can tap the magnifying glass in the top right of the YouTube Music app and click on the sound wave icon. From there, users can simply hum or sing the tune they are looking for. While the “sound search” feature is intuitive, it requires a reasonably close rendition of the original tune. In other words, if you’re way off-key, don’t expect a miracle! If a match is found, it quickly provides key details including the song name, artist, release year, and download status. The feature is now available to all users on iOS and Android.
What else? As an inside bonus, YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature for premium subscribers in the U.S. This feature will be able to create personalized music selections from text or voice prompts. These AI features are helping YouTube Music gain traction amidst dominance from Apple Music and Spotify, who are lagging behind in integration.
TECH COMPANIES STEAL YOUTUBE CONTENT 🥷
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What’s up? A Proof News investigation revealed that some of the world’s wealthiest AI companies, such as Anthropic, Nvidia, Apple, and Salesforce, have used transcripts from 173,536 YouTube videos sourced from over 48,000 channels to train their models. This comes despite YouTube’s rules against unauthorized harvesting.
What data was used? The dataset, known as YouTube Subtitles, includes educational content from Khan Academy, MIT, and Harvard, as well as videos from The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the BBC, and late-night shows like The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Even YouTube stars like MrBeast and PewDiePie have had their content used. Proof News created a tool that allows users to search this dataset and figure out what content has been used as training data.
Why is this significant? Tech companies are increasingly using controversial methods to feed their data-hungry AI models, secretly scraping books, websites, photos, and social media posts. David Pakman, host of a political show, found nearly 160 of his videos in the dataset. He argues that if AI companies profit from this data, content creators deserve compensation, stating, “This is my livelihood, and I put time, resources, money, and staff time into creating this content.”
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