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 threadBill, organizer of stuffNov 21
@stefan And if you turn it off, it also turns off the automatic email classification into spam/promotions/etc.
Show thread.vad//hakara🧭Nov 21
@wcbdata @stefan Not filtering spam would be shooting themselves in the foot, there's no way that gets turned off, right?
Show threadZeborah

@vadhakara I'm assuming Google still does spam filtering but I can confirm it turns off the automatic labelling of things as "promotions" vs "social" vs whatever. That was always useless for me and moreover made really questionable decisions so no big loss as far as I'm concerned.

@wcbdata @stefan

Nov 21 at 8:59amWeb
Show threadBill, organizer of stuffNov 21
@zeborah @vadhakara @stefan EDITED: That's correct - the Spam folder still works. 🙂