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> The bot proceeded to join two confidential meetings on my behalf and record the whole thing, then email every member an absurd, inaccurate "outline" after.

Can you explain how it was able to do this, apparently without people noticing? From what I understand it joins the meeting as a participant, which would be pretty obvious?

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To clarify, it joined as a very obvious user. It was not without people noticing, they didn't really seem to care but I did. I was not the meeting organizer so I could not kick it and didn't want to derail the discussion with explaining how I couldn't control my own computer (great look in front of clients), so we just proceeded with it recording.

The automatically emailed outline afterwards was the cherry on top, though, as it was filled with AI generated questions that I absolutely did not need answered. I got one response from someone that patiently explained some of the answers to the (idiotic) questions - how embarrassing.

I'm curious about this too. Possibly some large internal meeting, like a company quarterly update on performance and plans going forward? If there's 200 attendees someone might not notice a random one. Though Google still requires approval whenever someone outside your domain joins a meeting, so I feel like that would get caught easily too.

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