Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI

Google is pushing backmost connected viral societal media posts and articles similar this 1 by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its argumentation to usage your Gmail messages and attachments to bid AI models, and the lone mode to opt retired is by disabling “smart features” similar spell checking.

But Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson tells The Verge that “these reports are misleading – we person not changed anyone’s settings, Gmail Smart Features person existed for galore years, and we bash not usage your Gmail contented for grooming our Gemini AI model.”

You whitethorn privation to double-check your settings anyway, arsenic 1 Verge staffer besides says they had opted retired of immoderate of the Smart Features, but had been opted backmost successful to having them on. In January, Google updated its astute diagnostic personalization settings truthful that you could crook the features for Google Workspace and for different Google products (like Maps and Wallet) independently of each other. 

In summation to things similar spell checking, having Gmail’s astute features turned connected enables features like tracking orders oregon easy adding flights from Gmail to your calendar. Enabling the diagnostic successful Workspace says that “you hold to fto Google Workspace usage your Workspace contented and enactment to personalize your acquisition crossed Workspace,” according to the settings page, but according to Google, that does not mean handing implicit the contented of your emails to usage for AI training.