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How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton (proton.me)
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  • In your Gmail app, go to Settings.
  • Select your Gmail address.
  • Clear the Smart features checkbox.
  • Go to Google Workspace smart features.
  • Clear the checkboxes for: Smart features in Google Workspace, Smart features in other Google products
  • If you have more Gmail accounts, repeat these steps for each one.
  • Turning off Gemini in Gmail also disables basic, long-standing features like spellchecking, which predate AI assistants. This design choice discourages opting out and shows how valuable your AI-processed data is for Google.

This has finally gotten me to take steps to deGoogle my email, Fastmail trial underway.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't necessarily have a problem with offering AI. Especially in actually-useful contexts. I have a problem with it being forced on me in unwanted ones.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I have a problem with encryption possibly being a thing of the past because users I write with will put all incoming messages through some LLM because they can‘t be arsed to actually read and reply themselves.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Since when does email have encryption?

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean in general. It doesn‘t matter what you use because the AI software will be installed on their phones.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yes and no. If we're talking about email, that's completely different from Lumo, and can either be run locally or server-side with encryption, which is then immediately deleted.

https://proton.me/support/proton-scribe-writing-assistant#privacy

But I mean email is generally not private anyway.