I’ve been paying for fastmail for a few months now, pretty happy with it so far. The masked mails and aliases are great. Havent really used the storage and calender yet
Cool it is being trained on a ton of spam and vendor emails…
How to “opt out”:
- Open Gmail desktop in browser
- Settings icon
View all settingsGeneraltab- Unchecked
Turn on smart features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet
and that’s how Gemini 3 is made?
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.
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:
Can’t wait to see what their dogshit AI will output after being trained on all the LinkedIn lunatics
slipped in enabled. def turned off. ai probably gobbles your stuff first when you turn it off.
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.
So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.
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.
Because if there’s one thing we know about AI companies is they definitely tell you what they’re planning on using to train their data.
You are being sarcastic but this is indeed the case. Especially for companies like Google, which are concerned about being sued or dumped by major corporations that very much don’t want their data to be used for training without permission.
There’s a bit of a free-for-all with published data these days, but private data is another matter.
Careful. We don’t do rationality around AI here.
I opened GMail and it specifically asked me to give consent in a descriptive/onboarding popover. Declining was choosing one of the two options. I’m in EU, it may be different elsewhere (title and article about US?).
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.
Like a consent button will stop them doing it anyway. Consent is something for little people. They don’t believe in it.
