If it sees my attachments then all it’s gonna get is a lot of very poorly written smut. Happy to help make the lying machine worse, guys.
How to “opt out”:
- Open Gmail desktop in browser
- Settings icon
View all settingsGeneraltab- Unchecked
Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet
I think it’s cute how everyone thinks that just by clicking the little opt-out button they’re actually going to magically not have already fed your entire email backlog into their massive AI database. 😂
But hey, scouts honor, if you click that opt-out button they promise never to use any of your new emails in their constant information scape of your life.
You’re probably right, and that’s why it is in quotes, but I figured if I can save some people from reading a “there’s no readon this is 12 screens long” article I would.
FWIW I dont use Gmail at all anyway.
Mine was already off and I don’t remember turning it off. I’m gonna assume it does nothing.
I’ve been paying for fastmail for a few months now, pretty happy with it so far. The masked mails and aliases are great. Havent really used the storage and calender yet
I use thunderbird but I don’t know what email server to use!! No outlook because fuck Microsoft too, but my Gmail gotta go too if it’s this blatantly intrusive. Who do I use?? I’m too poor to host myself.
If you can afford $20/year, that’d be $10 for a domain and $10 for purelymail account, that’s an option.
Who is down voting me for this? I am asking a serious question. 😭
Hehe idk.
posteo for 1 eur/month? (Heard good stuff)
ProtonMail is a good free option (if I were paying and didn’t care about using my own custom domain posteo seems a lot better & cheaper)
Proton mail charges to be compatible with Thunderbird I tried that already.
True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).
I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest (if I absolutely can’t pay for one, I’d just live with protons webmail).
Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).
and that’s how Gemini 3 is made?
Cool it is being trained on a ton of spam and vendor emails…
Mine were already off.
We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
lol
eh, who reads fine print. they do it anyway. feel good switch. yah! ai wrote the correction
Remember, Google is not alone:
Can’t wait to see what their dogshit AI will output after being trained on all the LinkedIn lunatics
So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.
The age of accelerated enshitification is upon us (has been for a minute)
It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.
I have yet to see any of these news sites show evidence that this setting is for allowing training with your data. That’s not what the setting itself says, it seems like this is just a panicked ripple of clickbait titles sweeping rapidly across social media on a wave of AI dopamine.
Because if there’s one thing we know about AI companies, it’s that they definitely tell you what data they’re planning on using to train their AI.
You are being sarcastic but this is indeed the case. Especially for companies like Google, which are concerned about being sued or dumped by major corporations that very much don’t want their data to be used for training without permission.
There’s a bit of a free-for-all with published data these days, but private data is another matter.
Careful. We don’t do rationality around AI here.
I opened GMail and it specifically asked me to give consent in a descriptive/onboarding popover. Declining was choosing one of the two options. I’m in EU, it may be different elsewhere (title and article about US?).
slipped in enabled. def turned off. ai probably gobbles your stuff first when you turn it off.
