{"id":510191,"date":"2026-06-25T09:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510191\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:32:08","slug":"heres-how-to-opt-out-of-google-searchs-new-ai-data-training-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510191\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s How to Opt Out of Google Search\u2019s New AI Data Training Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThese new settings help users get more relevant results and revisit their searches \u2013 including visual and voice searches \u2013 and they can be turned on or off at any time,\u201d says Davis Thompson, a Google spokesperson, over email when reached for comment. He did not answer WIRED\u2019s question about this feature being on by default.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">What\u2019s really being saved here? Google is clear that it\u2019s starting to store much more than just what you type into Search. \u201cYour saved media includes your images, files, and audio and video recordings from your interactions with Search services,\u201d reads the page\u2019s description. \u201cThis includes things like Google Lens images, recordings from Search Live or Translate speaking practice, content you upload, and voice searches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">This is because AI models don\u2019t just need text data to improve; they need diverse inputs in other forms, like audio or video. If Google can gather more data, and more types of data, from its vast array of users, then maybe it could innovate faster than its competitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Google\u2019s massive user base is spread across multiple services, giving it an edge in data collection. \u201cGoogle is in a unique spot compared to a lot of the other companies with this,\u201d says Thorin Klosowski, a senior security and privacy activist at the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" class=\"external-link text link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.eff.org\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>. \u201cBecause they offer so many services that people have been using for so long and have grown pretty comfortable and complacent with the amount of data collected.\u201d Apps that people use every day have a kind of built-in inertia, so changes that users don\u2019t like may not be enough to drive them to alternative services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Being forced to opt out of AI training seems to be the standard across sites and platforms. It doesn\u2019t have to be this way. \u201cI think \u2018opt in\u2019 is really asking the bare minimum of these companies,\u201d Klosowski says. \u201cAsking their users to consciously choose to enable these features is the least they can do.\u201d Google would have to make a stronger case to users on why these features could be helpful if they weren\u2019t automatically just turned on, Klosowski says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In Google\u2019s email sent to my testing account on 23 June, the first sentence framed this change as giving me \u201ceven more control over saved history.\u201d Google then provided examples in the message showing how saving this media may be helpful. \u201cFor example, this lets you revisit your past visual searches with Lens or continue a Search Live conversation about a song you heard.\u201d In contrast, it\u2019s notable that Google didn\u2019t provide similar examples after stating near the end of the email that this saved media will be used for AI model training. Rather, the message just continued to the next detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThese new settings help users get more relevant results and revisit their searches \u2013 including visual and voice&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[114,85,167223,46,125,234192],"class_list":["post-510191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-business","tag-il","tag-industry-economy","tag-israel","tag-technology","tag-technology-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}