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We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.
lol
eh, who reads fine print. they do it anyway. feel good switch. yah! ai wrote the correction
Remember, Google is not alone:
How to “opt out”:
- Open Gmail desktop in browser
- Settings icon
View all settingsGeneraltab- Unchecked
Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet
Mine was already off and I don’t remember turning it off. I’m gonna assume it does nothing.
I have yet to see any of these news sites show evidence that this setting is for allowing training with your data. That’s not what the setting itself says, it seems like this is just a panicked ripple of clickbait titles sweeping rapidly across social media on a wave of AI dopamine.
Careful. We don’t do rationality around AI here.
The age of accelerated enshitification is upon us (has been for a minute)
It’s not really enshittification when “Google reads your mail” has been the entire point since the launch of GMail. Relevant ads, grouping mails into topics, find spam, etc. has always been the selling point of GMail.
Like a consent button will stop them doing it anyway. Consent is something for little people. They don’t believe in it.
I think we should stay and teach it to swear. A lot. I want it to casually throw things like “fuckery” and “suck start a shotgun” into business emails.
and that’s how Gemini 3 is made?
I only have one fake google account on an isolated VM with dedicated VPN. For the rare cases it’s unavoidable for something. Whoever actually uses gmail, will get what they pay for.
But this is probably anti-AI-ragebait anyway.
wtf is your threat model where you’re using a throwaway gmail in a vm on a vpn? you in iran or something bro? shiiiiiiiiit
Hehe, nah, germany. But I like my privacy and don’t like gifting away my data for free :)
slipped in enabled. def turned off. ai probably gobbles your stuff first when you turn it off.
I use thunderbird but I don’t know what email server to use!! No outlook because fuck Microsoft too, but my Gmail gotta go too if it’s this blatantly intrusive. Who do I use?? I’m too poor to host myself.
Who is down voting me for this? I am asking a serious question. 😭
Hehe idk.
posteo for 1 eur/month? (Heard good stuff)
ProtonMail is a good free option (if I were paying and didn’t care about using my own custom domain posteo seems a lot better & cheaper)
Proton mail charges to be compatible with Thunderbird I tried that already.
True, forgot about that. They are the best free option that forces you to use webmail if you don’t want to pay (and their app).
I’m not sure if there are any other free mail providers that i’d trust to be honest (if I absolutely can’t pay for one, I’d just live with protons webmail).
Posteo should work for you and it’s very cheap (1 eur).
If you can afford $20/year, that’d be $10 for a domain and $10 for purelymail account, that’s an option.
Mine were already off.
