"Allow access to Google Drive to load this Prompt."
.... why? For what possible reason? No, I'm not going to give access to my privately stored file share in order to view a prompt someone has shared. Come on, Google.
Well, you also have to allow it to train on your data. Although this is not explicitly about your Google drive data, and probably requires you to submit a prompt yourself, the barriers here are way to weak/fuzzy for me consider granting access via any account with private info.
I'm assuming because AI Studio persisted, including shared, prompts are stored in Drive, and prompt sharing is implemented on top of Drive file sharing, so if AI Studio doesn't have access to Drive it doesn't have access to the shared prompt.
Because most likely (at least according to Hanlon's razor) they somehow decided that using Google Drive as the only persistent storage backing AI studio was a reasonable UX decision.
It probably makes some sense internally in big tech corporation logic (no new data storage agreements on top of the ones the user has already agreed to when signing up for Drive etc.), but as a user, I find it incredibly strange too – especially since the text chats are in some proprietary format I can't easily open on my local GDrive replica, but the images generated or uploaded just look like regular JPEGs and PNGs.
.... why? For what possible reason? No, I'm not going to give access to my privately stored file share in order to view a prompt someone has shared. Come on, Google.