Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/39114169
How to opt out Opting out requires you to change settings in two places, so I’ve tried to make it as easy to follow as possible. Feel free to let me know in the comments if I missed anything.
To fully opt out, you must turn off Gmail’s “Smart features” in two separate locations in your settings. Don’t miss one, or AI training may continue.
Step 1: Turn off Smart Features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet settings Open Gmail on your desktop or mobile app. Click the gear icon → See all settings (desktop) or Menu → Settings (mobile). Find the section called Smart Features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet. You’ll need to scroll down quite a bit. Smart features settings Uncheck this option. Scroll down and hit Save changes if on desktop. Step 2: Turn off Google Workspace Smart Features Still in Settings, locate Google Workspace smart features. Click on Manage Workspace smart feature settings. You’ll see two options: Smart features in Google Workspace and Smart features in other Google products. Smart feature settings Toggle both off. Save again in this screen. Step 3: Verify if both are off Make sure both toggles remain off. Refresh your Gmail app or sign out and back in to confirm changes. Why two places? Google separates “Workspace” smart features (email, chat, meet) from smart features used across other Google apps. To fully opt out of feeding your data into AI training, both must be disabled.
Note Your account might not show these settings enabled by default yet (mine didn’t). Google appears to be rolling this out gradually. But if you care about privacy and control, double-check your settings today.
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Why do they want to train on heaps of spam?
Because you have to train with the type of content it’ll be used for.
The setting in question says nothing about training AI. Training is a completely different process from using AI, both technically and legally. This appears to be some kind of clickbait panic getting crossposted everywhere.
Yeah. Google as a company has contracts with large companies to not train using gmail data and this flows over to regular customers. Its a pretty large line in sand internally
As someone who has personally dealt with that kind of large contract, the data protection does not flow over to regular customers at all. Even with a big Google contract, our company still had restrictions on what kind of data we could put up there, specifically because of how Google said they’d process it.
Yeah no.
“Turning off a smart feature means your Workspace Content & Activity will no longer be used to improve the relevant smart features moving forward. The learnings developed from this improvement process may persist even after you turn off a smart feature.” “turning off a smart feature setting means that your Workspace Content & Activity would no longer be actively processed to improve the relevant smart features.”
That includes GMail and basically all your Google stuff. So they’re absolutely free to “improve their features” based on all your shit, and that would pretty certainly include Gemini.
