After Google’s LLM revealed undisclosed character details to a curious superfan – who then shared them over Discord – the developer began to suspect Gemini had been scraping Google Docs to train its AI. games developer klub kofta has accused gemini of scraping their privat google docs.

Using the handle of their solo Canadian indie game development studio, Klub Kofta, the developer took to Reddit to share details about how the player was able to obtain “surprisingly obscure information” about Kofta’s Ocean-themed tower defense game.

According to the player, the AI then came up with the correct name for a new character, “Vantage Tripod,” which had not been previously disclosed.

I feel like this story might just be to get media for their game. It’s pretty much a story about something that happened on Reddit - which pretends Reddit is a 100% honest, and totally not manufactured place. People lie all the time on Reddit. But also, how many clues would a fan following the games development have? Were there other guesses… Feels like there are lots of plot holes here.

After searching their Discord server history, Kofta said there were no previous mentions of the name.

Dev isn’t even certain they didn’t mention it somewhere. For all I know they live stream development progress. It’s such a nothing burg.

…also the article its self was “aided by nexos.ai”.