>He had the permissions turned off, so regardless of what it did with the document, it did it without permission! The title is correct!
Honestly it sounds like he was toggling permissions off and on and actually has no idea why it summarized that particular document despite him requesting it summarize other documents. Google should make the settings more clear, but "I had the options off, except when I didn't, and I set some other options in a different place that I didn't think would override the others, and also I toggled a bunch of the options back and forth" is hardly the condemnation that everyone is making it out to be.