Poor AI, reading all those ad emails...
I am wondering can we use LLMs to semantically encrypt our emails so that if I am talking about my startup strategy, to the person snooping or NSA it will appear as if we are talking about recipes.
Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
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Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#52When you disable all of these features, eventually it turns off email categorisation. At first this was annoying to me because it’s obviously a very good feature. But the last few weeks have been quite revealing: I’ve been receiving and unsubscribing from tons of emails I had no idea I even received regularly, because categories buried them away. I wonder how much of newsletter marketing (and paid email marketing) is…
Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#53> Enabling the feature in Workspace says that “you agree to let Google Workspace use your Workspace content and activity to personalize your experience across Workspace,” according to the settings page, but according to Google, that does not mean handing over the content of your emails to use for AI training. Google be like: "trust me bro"
User-facing software is full of language like that these days and I find it really frustrating, because it never helps answer the questions attentive people actually have, like will that mean my emails get dumped into the next Gemini training run?
(In some very broad sense I guess critics could call this “training AI” as there's an ML system somewhere whose parameters associated with your account get updated, but I think we can all agree this is not what we think of as “training AI”, i.e. going into a cross-user dataset for training Gemini or whatever.)
(I guess what Google should do, and should have done years/decades ago, is create a fixed set of categories of how your data can be used (aggregate statistics, training Gemini, personalization…) and use the same language across products, legal, everything.)
Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#54When you disable all of these features, eventually it turns off email categorisation. At first this was annoying to me because it’s obviously a very good feature. But the last few weeks have been quite revealing: I’ve been receiving and unsubscribing from tons of emails I had no idea I even received regularly, because categories buried them away. I wonder how much of newsletter marketing (and paid email marketing) is…
Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
User-facing software is full of language like that these days and I find it really frustrating, because it never helps answer the questions attentive people actually have, like will that mean my emails get dumped into the next Gemini training run?
Maybe my brain has rotted from paying a bit more attention to privacy language than the average person, but IMO in this case it's fairly clear to me that using your activity “to personalize your experience across Workspace” does not mean using it for training Gemini. The “personalize” means it's for training the recommendation/categorization systems for you , like which emails get marked as "important" or not (the se…
Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#56> Enabling the feature in Workspace says that “you agree to let Google Workspace use your Workspace content and activity to personalize your experience across Workspace,” according to the settings page, but according to Google, that does not mean handing over the content of your emails to use for AI training. Google be like: "trust me bro"
This is the same thing, and it's backed by a contract and the threat of lawsuits from the many businesses using Google Workspace.
Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#57Re: Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
#58The only reason I am still using gmail is due to choice paralysis. I do not know which email service to choose and pay for. I do not like Proton. Is Fastmail the way to go? There is also the German one posteo. Should I just use Apple's mail? I'm taking suggestions if you have anything to share.