- Google Drive is getting new functions from Gemini so that the platform is smarter
- This includes video summary tools and analysis
- You must trust AI chatbots with confidential information to be effective, so be careful how use them
Google Drive has revealed some new features with Gemini, but concerns have already been raised about possible security and privacy problems.
Previously, only capable of reading long documents (and probably losing key information), the cloud storage platform will now benefit from video files summaries and complete content analysis, which could really be useful for lost meetings that would otherwise take a long time to catch up.
That said, this comes with risks, as with all chatbots, there must be a serious level of confidence in the AI model, since carrying out these tasks requires access to potentially confidential information and files, including the most internal secrets of your company.
Privacy concerns
The tool is based on the subtitles generated by Google and will be accessible from the overlap of Gemini in the unit, so make sure they are enabled if you want to use these functions.
This feature is mainly aimed at professionals (if you want Gemini to summarize and explain precious family memories, then there are much larger problems at stake), but the movement means that it would give Gemini access to the potentially confidential information of the company, from recordings of meetings of the Board or commercial strategy meetings.
In 2024, the Gemini AI platform was accused of scanning the Google Drive files without user’s permission, which raised serious concerns about the use of the user data and the privacy settings.
However, that is not all, since Google has announced a new feature to help users measure the commitment in videos loaded on Google Drive, a “highly requested” tool that aims to give users a better vision of their video analysis.
So far, there is no administration control available for this function, and will be available for all customers of the Google work space, as well as individual subscribers of Google’s work space and Google’s personal accounts.
Through Arstechnica
