Ask HN: Does Google train on Google Docs?
9 puttycat 6 6/10/2025, 2:52:26 PM
I could not find any reliable clear-cut answer to this online:
I need to share and collaborate on a confidential document. Do I know for sure that its content won't be consumed and repeated by Gemini some day?
[0] https://cloud.google.com/document-ai/docs/security#data-usag...
Make a realistic assessment of the risk, assign a value to that risk.
Assign a value to the cost of finding an alternative.
It is an engineering problem, not a theoretical problem.
In future, there may be a change of terms & conditions - like everywhere now. X/Reddit/RedNote/Meta (FB/Insta)/TikTok/... all change(d) or already had this in their terms of use.. So in future, its possible that the free google docs uses the data. Google Workspace, paid, is more unlikely as its used by companies world wide.
You should assume that anything on "someone else's computer" that you didn't encrypt is or could be read or disclosed any time, and even if you encrypt it be aware that the filename (use a GUID?) or metadata (upload date/time/location/account) can still leak information to some degree.