Stefan BohacekNov 20

EDIT: The Malwarebytes article has been updated:

"After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case."

This confusion could've been easily avoided if Google was more clear in how they communicate with their users.

ORIGINAL:

PSA to anyone who uses Gmail!

"Reportedly, Google has recently started automatically opting users in to allow Gmail to access all private messages and attachments for training its AI models. This means your emails could be analyzed to improve Google’s AI assistants, like Smart Compose or AI-generated replies. Unless you decide to take action."

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off

#gmail #AI

[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features"

Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.

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Show threadLee Hauser
@stefan Would it be correct to assume email *sent* to a Gmail address would be suck-upable as well? I use Gmail only for a couple of peripheral accounts, but I correspond pretty heavily with Gmail users.
Nov 21 at 2:33amWeb
Show threadStefan BohacekNov 21
@lhauser Good question! I'd hope not, as there would be no way to opt out, but your guess is as good as mine.
Show thread★Pope Miller the Defondor, SBINov 21

@lhauser @stefan If they already can scan your mail, why *should* they limit that to your outgoing mails or drafts?! Eh? 😉

The only way to avoid that scanning as a non-gmail-user is to not correspond with gmal-users at all.
And tell them, why.

Show threaduint8_tNov 21
@miller
Even if you avoid Gmail yourself, you may be a member of some mailing list. It's almost guaranteed at least one other member will be using Gmail, so you can't really avoid AI being trained on your text then.
@lhauser @stefan