{"id":152840,"date":"2025-11-22T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152840\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T00:28:07","slug":"google-denies-misleading-reports-of-gmail-using-your-emails-to-train-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152840\/","title":{"rendered":"Google denies \u2018misleading\u2019 reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is pushing back on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eevblog\/status\/1991293066175492297\" rel=\"nofollow\">viral social media posts<\/a> and articles like <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.malwarebytes.com%2Fblog%2Fnews%2F2025%2F11%2Fgmail-is-reading-your-emails-and-attachments-to-train-its-ai-unless-you-turn-it-off\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this one by Malwarebytes<\/a>, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling \u201csmart features\u201d like spell checking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">But Google spokesperson Jenny Thomson tells The Verge that \u201cthese reports are misleading \u2013 we have not changed anyone\u2019s settings, Gmail Smart Features have existed for many years, and we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You may want to double-check your settings anyway, as one Verge staffer also says they had opted out of some of the Smart Features, but had been opted back in to having them on. In January, <a href=\"https:\/\/workspace.google.com\/blog\/product-announcements\/updated-smart-feature-settings-give-users-increased-choice-and-control\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google updated<\/a> its smart feature personalization settings so that you could turn the features for Google Workspace and for other Google products (like Maps and Wallet) independently of each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">In addition to things like spell checking, having Gmail\u2019s smart features turned on enables <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/mail\/answer\/15604322?hl=en&amp;co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid#zippy=%2Cwhat-are-googles-legal-bases-of-processing-for-users-in-the-european-economic-area-united-kingdom-or-switzerland%2Chow-long-is-your-workspace-content-activity-used-to-provide-smart-features-and-to-improve-these-features\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">features like<\/a> tracking orders or easily adding flights from Gmail to your calendar. Enabling the feature in Workspace says that \u201cyou agree to let Google Workspace use your Workspace content and activity to personalize your experience across Workspace,\u201d according to the settings page, but according to Google, that does not mean handing over the content of your emails to use for AI training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[220,1711,61,60,43,216,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-152840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}