This would be useful for Google Workspaces if it respected all of the ACL's across shared google drives. To be able to ask questions about the document repository would be a nice thing to have. Currently Bard isn't supported for Workspace.
I'd still be careful with who I expose that prompt input to, ACLs supposedly respected or no. There's currently no reliable defense against prompt injections. It's a really bad day when someone says "oh and delete all of the emails and drive data and backups" in a way that convinces Bard to actually do it.
Gonna repost this here as the other comment was on a fairly dead story:
I tried it and it's awful.
I asked it about the latest bill with some company, it told me it wasn't sure but I should call a number which was obviously fake (1-800-555-1212). Told it to check my emails and it couldn't find anything. It is not a common name of the company at all, and I have recent emails.
I'm making some prints of pictures of the sun (plug: https://www.theremarkablz.com/thesun) and a friend was selling them at a stall recently. Asked bard how the sale went, and it told me to go and check someones onlyfans page who has the same first name. I told it to check my emails and it brought up info on a house sale from someone with an entirely different name.
Just shooting from the hip, but if you're logged into multiple accounts simultaneously, try just one. I've found that the u=1 URL query param (or maybe /u/1 path, whatever it is) incrementer to select among active sessions is reasonably persistent with most, but not all, Google apps. Notably, Google Analytics would drop the ball at times, leading me to manually add it back
I'm not sure that you understand what is meant by "Google Workspace".
It's been through a few developments in terminology. Google Workspace refers to the suite of apps, regardless of how they are paid, deployed, or who uses them.
Google Workspace is available to "normal free Gmail users" just as it is to Enterprise admins. I am an individual user with three personal accounts, I subscribe to Google One, and I use Google Workspace on all those accounts. Likewise, at work I use Google Workspace as provided by my employer.
It has different features and structures depending on level of service, but it's the same name for everyone.
It may, in fact, be instructive if you ask Bard "are you available for Google Workspace?"
"I've tried enabling this setting for both a legacy free Google Apps domain, and for a paid Business account"
I even included a screenshot of the Google Workspace Admin settings (which doesn't apply to personal @gmail.com accounts).
I was talking about one of the 'Business' plans listed on the Google Workspace Pricing page (https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html) or the legacy free plan (which used to be GSuite for your domain).
This surprised me. I don't. It added Workspace extension to my Chrome, then turned it on. I turned it off because I was concerned with privacy. Now the extension is gone. It must have been a bug that they've fixed.
No thanks, stay away from our emails. Last thing people want is their email content and personal google drive including images to be part of a giant LLM that is publicly available for anyone to use.
can't do image search in a photos app too which is a major bummer for me personally. I protocol things there and it's impossible to find without annotations.
Bard's integration with Gmail is extremely basic -- it's just using regular Gmail search to include a few relevant emails in its prompt and then trying to answer your question. There's no AI in the email side.
