According to the developer\u2019s Reddit post<\/a>, specifically Google\u2019s AI knew the name of a character \u2018Vantage Tripod\u2019 before it had ever been released publicly \u2014 the most the fanbase knew was that there\u2019s a \u2018Tripod Fish\u2019 character planned for the game, but not this exact name. It also seemed to be able to regurgitate accurate information related to unreleased mechanics that the developer says they had only written into GDocs the day before the player\u2019s AI interaction.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The developer admitted Google\u2019s AI made a few mistakes, but said that some details were scarily accurate in many ways \u2014 accurate enough that the developer is certain Google must have scrapped his private documents.<\/p>\n Latest Videos FromTechRadar<\/p>\n Google says Gemini can access Google Docs information, but only does so when given express permission \u2014 such as being asked to summarise a document \u2014 and it adds that even when it does go into your files, Gemini handles data transiently. That is, Google\u2019s AI won\u2019t retain anything.<\/p>\n \n (Image credit: Google)<\/p>\n There are a couple of exceptions to this. If a Google Doc is accessible to \u2018Anyone with the link\u2019 and that link is posted publicly online (such as on a page or in a forum) Google could scrape it for training data. Alternatively, if you\u2019ve allowed a third-party extension to scrape your Google Docs, it\u2019s possible Gemini could get access to that data \u2014 indirectly seeing what\u2019s in your docs.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n If you were to type out info from your docs into Google Gemini, it would also learn about what you had written that way.<\/p>\n Despite Google\u2019s promises, some aren\u2019t entirely convinced. The thread I shared above (along with plenty of anti-AI and anti-Google subreddits) is full of people certain that Google has drained their digital files for all the data it can find. Privacy company Proton<\/a> has also published an article outlining details such as Google\u2019s privacy hub<\/a> not explicitly saying it won\u2019t use your content for AI training.<\/p>\n So many unknowns<\/p>\n I\u2019ve reached out to Google with a request for comment about what has happened here (it has yet to get back to me), and while waiting for an answer I had an attempt at recreating the responses by prompting Gemini myself with no luck. It\u2019s only reference to these details was the Reddit post information.<\/p>\n Later screenshots shared by the developer<\/a> show the friend who got the AI to divulge the details originally also failed to recreate the \u201cfluke.\u201d<\/p>\n \n What does it know? (Image credit: Google)<\/p>\n The whole situation is very weird and it\u2019s impossible to tell exactly what has happened, based on the information available. While it certainly looks like Gemini has used information it shouldn\u2019t have, it’s equally possible that the developer has provided the AI or the friend with access to that information without realising \u2014 allowing Gemini to respond the way it did.<\/p>\n The AI could also have hallucinated the information in some way, or perhaps taken inspiration from previous prompts to inform its comments. Further, it\u2019s worth noting that the only responses that would stand out are these two that get very close to the truth, the sea of incorrect guesses that the AI could have given wouldn\u2019t bat an eyelid.<\/p>\n Regardless of what happened it\u2019s another situation that reminds us to be careful with our personal info. Digitally storing personal data has its risks beyond possible AI scraping, and sharing data with an AI often means your private info won\u2019t be private anymore.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n <\/a><\/p>\n Follow TechRadar on Google News<\/a> and add us as a preferred source<\/a> to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A game developer claims Gemini leaked information in his private Google DocsPer screenshots shared online, the AI told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Google](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Xm2Jbq3TPCd5KnXeQrmZQM.jpg\")
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