Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
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#2Thank god they also got consent from the non google people who sent the email.
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#3Google can read the emails of everyone who corresponds with a Gmail user - which is almost everyone - and they can't opt out.
Re: Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
#4Link for the lazy: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/general
Find "Smart Features", uncheck, and press save, which will reload Gmail.
Then find "Google Workspace smart features" and click the "Manage Workspace smart features settings" button and unselect everything.
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#5Google will use your family's pictures and memories "to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies."
Someone will ask a Google AI service to generate an image some day and your daughter will be used. And that's one of the least worrying outcomes.
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#6They're claiming that these options allow Google to use your data to train its AI, but that's not what it says at all. Where are they getting that idea from?
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#8Oh Well, I left gmail years ago, now it is used for junk mail, good luck loading ads going to gmail into your AI :)
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#9Link for the lazy: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#settings/general Find "Smart Features", uncheck, and press save, which will reload Gmail. Then find "Google Workspace smart features" and click the "Manage Workspace smart features settings" button and unselect everything.
They disable so many features when you remove "Smart features" i.e.
Grammar, Spelling, Autocorrect, Smart Compose/Reply (those templated suggested replies), Nudges, Package tracking, Desktop notifications.
Google really wants to punish you for doing that.
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#10From the dialogues in the pictures it doesn’t sound like they are using anyones emails for training. The messaging indicates it’s more like using as context and/or generating embeddings for RAG. Unless there’s something else I’m not aware of.
I know that Google does a lot of bad stuff but we don’t need to make up stuff they just aren’t doing
This doomsday messaging an alarmism is only serves to degrade the whole cause
edit: and before someone say that they also don’t want that then let’s criticize it for what it is (opting users to feature without consent). We don’t need to make stuff up, it really doesn’t help.