Add security to protect our documents against your AI
Your AI is very obviously scanning and learning from our documents, sketches, etc. This is a huge breach of trust.
One huge use of Goodnotes for me and I am sure many others is to have a place to sketch out ideas. I cannot continue to do this in the knowledge that you are very obviously scanning and training your AI off of our ideas.
Without that foundation of trust there is no way I would recommend this application to anybody anymore.
Please rethink your AI integration. Apply AI only with consent and respect that "no means no".
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Notetaker
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Update: Early October 2026.
We now KNOW that AI companies are stealing people's ideas in R & D.
Dear, GoodNotes: you are either obfuscating for whatever cowardly reason, or you are knowingly complicit with gather and sending people's ideas, potential IP, etc. in all fields and syphoning these off to AI companies.
By default, I now no longer trust any application that has any form of AI built in. Pen and paper are the future.
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Kimberly Proctor
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I’ve felt the same way and ended up using a mix of app-level lock plus keeping certain notebooks in a separate local-only folder. It’s a bit of a patchwork, but it keeps stuff out of sync until I’m cool with it being on the cloud. Some folks also import PDFs into password-protected containers before adding them, though that’s a bit of a hassle.