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OK so if I had looked a few lines down, I would have seen that there’s a filter right below that, you can set your defaults like this:

function custom_bp_docs_permissions($doc_settings, $doc_id, $default_settings) {

  $custom_default_settings = array(
    'read'          => 'group-members',
    'edit'          => 'group-members',
    'read_comments' => 'group-members',
    'post_comments' => 'group-members',
    'view_history'  => 'group-members',
    'manage'        => 'group-members',
  );

  if($doc_id == 0 || $doc_settings == $default_settings) {
    return $custom_default_settings;
  } else {
    return $doc_settings;
  }

}
add_filter('bp_docs_get_doc_settings',custom_bp_docs_permissions,10,3);

Hope this helps someone else out there…

Take a look at functions.php line 445

$default_settings = array(
		'read'          => 'anyone',
		'edit'          => 'loggedin',
		'read_comments' => 'anyone',
		'post_comments' => 'anyone',
		'view_history'  => 'anyone',
		'manage'        => 'creator',
	);

Wish there was a way to set this without hacking the bp docs core… still looking into that.