Google quietly changed a Gemini promise: human reviewers may see your connected files
Follow-up to Thursday Nov 5: Gemini trains on paid chats, and our devices listen moreLast Thursday, a Hacker News post said Gemini trains on chat history even for paying users. Now a new post on r/artificial points to something more personal: human eyes on your files.
In 2023, when Google launched Gemini's links to Gmail, Docs and Drive, it promised that this personal content 'is not seen by human reviewers'. According to the post, Google reversed that. An updated Google help page, and an October 16 edit to the 2023 blog post, now say connected Drive and email content can go into human review. Google's warning says what reviewers see 'may just be the email or file'. The poster says this applies to consumer Gemini.
This comes from a Reddit post, and our sources have no comment from Google. The edit is dated October 16, but people are only talking about it now, weeks later.
Many people connect their inbox and documents to an AI assistant without reading the help pages. A promise that changes quietly is a promise you cannot rely on. If you use Gemini with Gmail or Drive, check what you have connected today.
