It’s quite possible that permission was accidentally given somewhere in Google’s platform when it was begging them to allow Gemini access “to improve your Google experience”.
A phone pop-up, a notification in Gmail, Google Home, you name it, there’s plenty of places in the Google ecosystem to put a prompt in that’s worded in just the right way so that you think you’re sharing a slice and Google’s taking the whole pie.
Maybe Gemini is allowed to search private GDocs content?
What if it was just guessing? That’s a low probability, but it would be creepy.
Seems more likely the Dev has accidentally set sharing permissions on their GDocs or Google Drive that allowed it to be indexed.
It’s quite possible that permission was accidentally given somewhere in Google’s platform when it was begging them to allow Gemini access “to improve your Google experience”.
A phone pop-up, a notification in Gmail, Google Home, you name it, there’s plenty of places in the Google ecosystem to put a prompt in that’s worded in just the right way so that you think you’re sharing a slice and Google’s taking the whole pie.