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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
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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, it's that they definitely tell you what data they're planning on using to train their AI.
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.