New Nightmare Just Dropped
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Happened to @Aborigen too! They are cranking up their grip on shared documents, better keep them private for now. Also, it’s probably a good idea to have offline backups, and/or another cloud provider.
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“Do not trust Google Drive”? I think it would be most accurate to say “Don’t trust Google…ever.”
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@protect-tinies Don’t want to go full tinfoil hat mode but there’s something going, what’s scary is that they are now using machine learning to scan and analyse the documents instead of simple pattern/keyword matching or other Bayesian tricks. I’m sure they are training AI with that content, too, regardless of their so-called “privacy policies”.
So the actual content is being “read” by an AI and categorized. I don’t know if you remember my fun times with Google’s AI (Gemini) lecturing me about the moral implications of shrunken women? The “power imbalance” and “harmful representation”, " etc.
Just imagine how it would react to scanning some of the stories we like, even the most wholesome ones aren’t safe based on my previous interactions with Gemini.
It’s funny how some people in the community are like “nah don’t worry sizey stuff isn’t weird unless you make it so”… well, guess again, normies training these AIs clearly don’t think there’s anything “normal” about it and have trained their AIs to flag it.
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Maybe my anxiety-raddled mind is just not seeing something obvious, but can someone help me figure out how to make sure my Google Drive folder is private? When I look at the details of the folder, is says it is… but I also know for a fact that I have shared a couple of docs within this folder with another person… can something still be “private” but shared??
(I definitely plan to back things up and whatnot, just looking at the shortest-term solution at the moment)
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@foreverlurk Exactly…I believe Google is pure evil. And so are Apple, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc., because they’re all wannabe dictators whose end goal is to get as much power as possible (by any means possible) and to control everyone forever, appointing themselves as our unelected rulers. If I could avoid giving money to any of them, I would, but it’s pretty much impossible to do that without swearing off computers and phones altogether.
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As @Aborigen writes, Hey, You, Get Off of the Cloud.
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@littlest-lily said in New Nightmare Just Dropped:
can something still be “private” but shared??
By default I think everything in your drive is private, but reading what @Aborigen wrote on his blog, it seems that anything sitting on the home screen of Google Drive is also somehow considered “public” (!)
So if I understand correctly, if you create folders to store your documents they are private unless you explicitly share them. Unless they’re sitting on the top level of your drive, in which case they could be scanned (going by what Aborigen said)
He also mentions finding a workaround for locked documents, and while he won’t reveal his fix publicly (for fear Google will patch it), you can contact him for help.
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@foreverlurk Huh… Except the home page for me is just all of my recent docs so uh… Great
I appreciate the help in any case
I’d love to figure out alternatives but just haven’t been able to dedicate time to it lately - not necessarily from a lack of curiosity as was suggested in the article, but from being completely in over my head with IRL issues (while also not wanting to lose all of the work that I’ve put in to my writing if possible…) This is so stressful.If you’d like to support me and my work, please feel free to leave me a tip and I will be so grateful! https://ko-fi.com/littlestlily
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@littlest-lily Could you use temporary storage space on someone else’s machine?
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@Olo
There you go again, trying to trap another tiny lady in you fake computer cage again.
HH1
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@Olo Hahahaha you won’t catch me so easily!!
(I’ve done the short term fix of downloading everything to my hardrive… The next Oote is already going to take long enough as is without me having to start over lol)
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