Google Denies ‘misleading’ Reports Of Gmail Using Your Emails To Train Ai

Google is pushing backmost connected viral societal media posts and articles for illustration this 1 by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its argumentation to usage your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and nan only measurement to opt retired is by disabling “smart features” for illustration 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 do not usage your Gmail contented for training our Gemini AI model.”

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

In summation to things for illustration spell checking, having Gmail’s smart features turned connected enables features like search orders aliases easy adding flights from Gmail to your calendar. Enabling nan characteristic successful Workspace says that “you work together to fto Google Workspace usage your Workspace contented and activity to personalize your acquisition crossed Workspace,” according to nan settings page, but according to Google, that does not mean handing complete nan contented of your emails to usage for AI training.