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Misty (misty@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 23-Nov-2025 10:16:28 JST Misty

FYI for people who have been sharing that Malwarebytes blog post about Gmail training on your email - they misunderstood and have updated their post with a correction at the top. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/gmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off
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  Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
  
  from Pieter Arntz
  
  A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
2. Update November 22. 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. Gmail does scan email content to power its own “smart features,” such as spam filtering, categorisation, and writing suggestions. But this is part of how Gmail normally works and isn’t the same as training Google’s generative AI models. Google also maintains that these feature settings are opt-in rather than opt-out, although users’ experiences seem to vary depending on when and how the new wording appeared.
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